02-21-2010, 04:46 PM
Shlama Jerry,
As far as I know, waw is/was pronounced like a "w" (but a soft beth was a "v"). Most think that the same holds true for Biblical Hebrew.
Let me ask you this: for those who teach that Biblical Hebrew had vav, do they pronounce the letter qof (??) like a "k" or like the Syriac qoph ([font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]q[/font])? If they pronounce it like "k," then they're probably using the Modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation (which, I think, is based off the languages that diaspora Jews spoke in Europe like German/Yiddish and Russian, which don't have "w" or "q" sounds).
As far as I know, waw is/was pronounced like a "w" (but a soft beth was a "v"). Most think that the same holds true for Biblical Hebrew.
Let me ask you this: for those who teach that Biblical Hebrew had vav, do they pronounce the letter qof (??) like a "k" or like the Syriac qoph ([font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]q[/font])? If they pronounce it like "k," then they're probably using the Modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation (which, I think, is based off the languages that diaspora Jews spoke in Europe like German/Yiddish and Russian, which don't have "w" or "q" sounds).