Tiberian Hebrew is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Judea c.750–950 CE. They wrote in the form of Tiberian vocalization, which employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs and consonant diacritics (nequdot) and the so-called accents (two related systems of cantillation signs or te'amim). These together with the marginal notes masora magna and masora parva make up the Tiberian apparatus.
Though the written vowels and accents came into use only c. 750 CE, the oral tradition they reflect is many centuries older, with ancient roots. Although not in common use today, the Tiberian pronunciation of Hebrew is considered by textual scholars to be the most exact and proper pronunciation of the language as it preserves all of the original Semitic consonantal and vowel sounds of ancient Hebrew.
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Today's Hebrew grammar books do not teach the Tiberian Hebrew described by the early grammarians. The prevailing view is that of David Qimchi's system of dividing the graphic signs into "short" and "long" vowels. The values assigned to the Tiberian vowel signs reveals a Sephardi tradition of pronunciation (the dual quality of qames (אָ) as /a/, /o/; the pronunciation of simple sheva (אְ) as /ɛ̆/).
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MODERN HEBREW- Alon
Bible Society of Israel (2000)
TIBERIAN HEBREW- Woody
Salkinsohn and Ginsburg (1891)
MODERN HEBREW- is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. Spoken in ancient times, Ancient Hebrew, a member of the Canaanite branch of the Semitic language family, was supplanted as the Jewish vernacular by the western dialect of Aramaic beginning in the third century BCE, though it continued to be used as a liturgical and literary language. It was revived as a spoken language in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the official language of Israel. Of ...
published: 25 Sep 2021
One of the most famous Bible translation errors #hebrew #bible
published: 27 Jun 2023
What did ancient Hebrew sound like?
Study with David: https://www.biblicalculture.org/hebrew
Contact: [email protected]
A new book by Geoffrey Khan with an oral performance by Alex Foreman presents Hebrew as it may have sounded 1000 years ago in Tiberias. Download "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew" and the oral recordings here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/951. Summary essay: https://www.thetorah.com/article/how-was-the-hebrew-of-the-bible-originally-pronounced.
Rabbi Dr. David Moster is the director of the Institute of Biblical Culture and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He is the author of "Etrog: How a Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol." He received his PhD in Tanakh from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, an...
published: 11 May 2022
The Sound of the Biblical / Archaic Hebrew (Judahite) language (Numbers, Words & Sample Text)
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NOTE: it’s Lašōn Yəhūdīt not Lašōn Yədhūdīt.
Ancient Hebrew from the era of the great Deuteronomistic Reform, when Kings Josiah and Hezekiah’s scribes wrote the Hebrew Bible, sometime in the 7th century BCE in Judah. It is also known as the Judahite dialect of Hebrew.
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published: 19 Oct 2021
The Bible was written in THESE languages
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In this short video I talk about the three languages the Bible was originally written in, if we include both the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament. I didn't include the Apocrypha.
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published: 10 Nov 2022
How more Bible names are pronounced in Hebrew!😳
published: 13 Aug 2022
Top 100 Verbs In The Hebrew Bible (Tiberian Pronunciation)
Based on Dr. Geoffrey Khan's work, "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew". https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/951
published: 18 Oct 2021
Beginning of "Nishmat Kol Chai" read in Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation, because why not?
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
Usually I have used this pronunciation for reading of Biblical passages. But occasion...
published: 02 Apr 2023
Psalm 1 chanted using a reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation.
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
As with all reconstructions, this is at more than one level hypothetical. In listeni...
published: 26 Aug 2023
Genesis 1:1-13 recited in Tiberian Hebrew
The opening of the book of Genesis, chanted using a reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation. This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat ...
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread ...
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet.
Special Thanks to
MODERN HEBREW- Alon
Bible Society of Israel (2000)
TIBERIAN HEBREW- Woody
Salkinsohn and Ginsburg (1891)
MODERN HEBREW- is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. Spoken in ancient times, Ancient Hebrew, a member of the Canaanite branch of the Semitic language family, was supplanted as the Jewish vernacular by the western dialect of Aramaic beginning in the third century BCE, though it continued to be used as a liturgical and literary language. It was revived as a spoken language in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the official language of Israel. Of the Canaanite languages, Modern Hebrew is the only language spoken today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Hebrew
TIBERIAN HEBREW- is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Galilee c. 750–950 CE under the Abbasid Caliphate. They wrote in the form of Tiberian vocalization, which employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs and consonant diacritics (nequdot) and the so-called accents (two related systems of cantillation signs or te'amim). These together with the marginal notes masora magna and masora parva make up the Tiberian apparatus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberian_Hebrew
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Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet.
Special Thanks to
MODERN HEBREW- Alon
Bible Society of Israel (2000)
TIBERIAN HEBREW- Woody
Salkinsohn and Ginsburg (1891)
MODERN HEBREW- is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. Spoken in ancient times, Ancient Hebrew, a member of the Canaanite branch of the Semitic language family, was supplanted as the Jewish vernacular by the western dialect of Aramaic beginning in the third century BCE, though it continued to be used as a liturgical and literary language. It was revived as a spoken language in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the official language of Israel. Of the Canaanite languages, Modern Hebrew is the only language spoken today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Hebrew
TIBERIAN HEBREW- is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Galilee c. 750–950 CE under the Abbasid Caliphate. They wrote in the form of Tiberian vocalization, which employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs and consonant diacritics (nequdot) and the so-called accents (two related systems of cantillation signs or te'amim). These together with the marginal notes masora magna and masora parva make up the Tiberian apparatus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberian_Hebrew
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Study with David: https://www.biblicalculture.org/hebrew
Contact: [email protected]
A new book by Geoffrey Khan with an oral performance by Alex Forema...
Study with David: https://www.biblicalculture.org/hebrew
Contact: [email protected]
A new book by Geoffrey Khan with an oral performance by Alex Foreman presents Hebrew as it may have sounded 1000 years ago in Tiberias. Download "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew" and the oral recordings here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/951. Summary essay: https://www.thetorah.com/article/how-was-the-hebrew-of-the-bible-originally-pronounced.
Rabbi Dr. David Moster is the director of the Institute of Biblical Culture and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He is the author of "Etrog: How a Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol." He received his PhD in Tanakh from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and holds degrees in Bible, Education, and Rabbinics from Yeshiva University and New York University.
Study with David: https://www.biblicalculture.org/hebrew
Contact: [email protected]
A new book by Geoffrey Khan with an oral performance by Alex Foreman presents Hebrew as it may have sounded 1000 years ago in Tiberias. Download "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew" and the oral recordings here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/951. Summary essay: https://www.thetorah.com/article/how-was-the-hebrew-of-the-bible-originally-pronounced.
Rabbi Dr. David Moster is the director of the Institute of Biblical Culture and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He is the author of "Etrog: How a Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol." He received his PhD in Tanakh from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and holds degrees in Bible, Education, and Rabbinics from Yeshiva University and New York University.
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread ...
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet.
Special Thanks to Ahiram & Lior
NOTE: it’s Lašōn Yəhūdīt not Lašōn Yədhūdīt.
Ancient Hebrew from the era of the great Deuteronomistic Reform, when Kings Josiah and Hezekiah’s scribes wrote the Hebrew Bible, sometime in the 7th century BCE in Judah. It is also known as the Judahite dialect of Hebrew.
Please feel free to subscribe to see more of this.
I hope you have a great day! Stay happy!
Please support me on Patreon!
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If you are interested to see your native language/dialect be featured here.
Submit your recordings to [email protected].
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Looking forward to hearing from you!
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet.
Special Thanks to Ahiram & Lior
NOTE: it’s Lašōn Yəhūdīt not Lašōn Yədhūdīt.
Ancient Hebrew from the era of the great Deuteronomistic Reform, when Kings Josiah and Hezekiah’s scribes wrote the Hebrew Bible, sometime in the 7th century BCE in Judah. It is also known as the Judahite dialect of Hebrew.
Please feel free to subscribe to see more of this.
I hope you have a great day! Stay happy!
Please support me on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16809442.
Please support me on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/otipeps0124
If you are interested to see your native language/dialect be featured here.
Submit your recordings to [email protected].
Follow me on Instagram andy_i_love_languages
Looking forward to hearing from you!
#shorts
In this short video I talk about the three languages the Bible was originally written in, if we include both the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the Ne...
#shorts
In this short video I talk about the three languages the Bible was originally written in, if we include both the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament. I didn't include the Apocrypha.
Commercial images licensed from istock.com
Creative Commons images in this video:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S1PQV8EiDrZn8cA71YfipNdU2B7WY88hjjkd9GFDv30/edit?usp=sharing
Front page image of Israel Ha-Yom newspaper: fair use intended.
#shorts
In this short video I talk about the three languages the Bible was originally written in, if we include both the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament. I didn't include the Apocrypha.
Commercial images licensed from istock.com
Creative Commons images in this video:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S1PQV8EiDrZn8cA71YfipNdU2B7WY88hjjkd9GFDv30/edit?usp=sharing
Front page image of Israel Ha-Yom newspaper: fair use intended.
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record....
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
Usually I have used this pronunciation for reading of Biblical passages. But occasionally I make recordings of other early Hebrew material in it. This prayer (in some form) would have been known to the users of the Tiberian reading tradition, though.
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
Usually I have used this pronunciation for reading of Biblical passages. But occasionally I make recordings of other early Hebrew material in it. This prayer (in some form) would have been known to the users of the Tiberian reading tradition, though.
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record....
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
As with all reconstructions, this is at more than one level hypothetical. In listening to this, you are doing something less like watching a documentary than watching a well-researched work of historical fiction.
The cantillation is basically a loose adaptation of Yerushalmi/Ḥalabi, and isn't meant to reflect the traditional Tiberian melodies (which we just do not have enough data to convincingly reconstruct, though lots of people have lost their minds in whacky attempts to do so.)
A frequently asked question here is "Were the Tiberian Hebrew resh and vav really pronounced like that? Sounds suspiciously like Modern Hebrew."
The answer is yes, yes they were. For more on these, see Geoffrey Khan's book which is the basis of the reconstruction used here, and available for free from the following site:
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0163#
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
As with all reconstructions, this is at more than one level hypothetical. In listening to this, you are doing something less like watching a documentary than watching a well-researched work of historical fiction.
The cantillation is basically a loose adaptation of Yerushalmi/Ḥalabi, and isn't meant to reflect the traditional Tiberian melodies (which we just do not have enough data to convincingly reconstruct, though lots of people have lost their minds in whacky attempts to do so.)
A frequently asked question here is "Were the Tiberian Hebrew resh and vav really pronounced like that? Sounds suspiciously like Modern Hebrew."
The answer is yes, yes they were. For more on these, see Geoffrey Khan's book which is the basis of the reconstruction used here, and available for free from the following site:
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0163#
The opening of the book of Genesis, chanted using a reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation. This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval...
The opening of the book of Genesis, chanted using a reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation. This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
As with all reconstructions, this is at more than one level hypothetical. In listening to this, you are doing something less like watching a documentary than watching a well-researched work of historical fiction.
As you can probably tell, I am not an especially well-practiced cantor at all.
I apologize for the poor rendering of the Hebrew diacritics. iMovie is not very cooperative on this score.
If you want to hear more recordings in Tiberian Hebrew, (including a recording of this passage without cantillation) you can find them on my soundcloud playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/alex-foreman-209218576/sets/bible-readings-in-tiberian
The opening of the book of Genesis, chanted using a reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation. This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
As with all reconstructions, this is at more than one level hypothetical. In listening to this, you are doing something less like watching a documentary than watching a well-researched work of historical fiction.
As you can probably tell, I am not an especially well-practiced cantor at all.
I apologize for the poor rendering of the Hebrew diacritics. iMovie is not very cooperative on this score.
If you want to hear more recordings in Tiberian Hebrew, (including a recording of this passage without cantillation) you can find them on my soundcloud playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/alex-foreman-209218576/sets/bible-readings-in-tiberian
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet.
Special Thanks to
MODERN HEBREW- Alon
Bible Society of Israel (2000)
TIBERIAN HEBREW- Woody
Salkinsohn and Ginsburg (1891)
MODERN HEBREW- is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. Spoken in ancient times, Ancient Hebrew, a member of the Canaanite branch of the Semitic language family, was supplanted as the Jewish vernacular by the western dialect of Aramaic beginning in the third century BCE, though it continued to be used as a liturgical and literary language. It was revived as a spoken language in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the official language of Israel. Of the Canaanite languages, Modern Hebrew is the only language spoken today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Hebrew
TIBERIAN HEBREW- is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Galilee c. 750–950 CE under the Abbasid Caliphate. They wrote in the form of Tiberian vocalization, which employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs and consonant diacritics (nequdot) and the so-called accents (two related systems of cantillation signs or te'amim). These together with the marginal notes masora magna and masora parva make up the Tiberian apparatus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberian_Hebrew
Please feel free to subscribe to see more of this.
I hope you have a great day! Stay happy!
Please support me on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16809442.
Please support me on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/otipeps0124
If you are interested to see your native language/dialect be featured here.
Submit your recordings to [email protected].
Follow me on Instagram andy_i_love_languages
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Study with David: https://www.biblicalculture.org/hebrew
Contact: [email protected]
A new book by Geoffrey Khan with an oral performance by Alex Foreman presents Hebrew as it may have sounded 1000 years ago in Tiberias. Download "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew" and the oral recordings here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/951. Summary essay: https://www.thetorah.com/article/how-was-the-hebrew-of-the-bible-originally-pronounced.
Rabbi Dr. David Moster is the director of the Institute of Biblical Culture and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He is the author of "Etrog: How a Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol." He received his PhD in Tanakh from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and holds degrees in Bible, Education, and Rabbinics from Yeshiva University and New York University.
Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let's learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet.
Special Thanks to Ahiram & Lior
NOTE: it’s Lašōn Yəhūdīt not Lašōn Yədhūdīt.
Ancient Hebrew from the era of the great Deuteronomistic Reform, when Kings Josiah and Hezekiah’s scribes wrote the Hebrew Bible, sometime in the 7th century BCE in Judah. It is also known as the Judahite dialect of Hebrew.
Please feel free to subscribe to see more of this.
I hope you have a great day! Stay happy!
Please support me on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16809442.
Please support me on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/otipeps0124
If you are interested to see your native language/dialect be featured here.
Submit your recordings to [email protected].
Follow me on Instagram andy_i_love_languages
Looking forward to hearing from you!
#shorts
In this short video I talk about the three languages the Bible was originally written in, if we include both the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament. I didn't include the Apocrypha.
Commercial images licensed from istock.com
Creative Commons images in this video:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S1PQV8EiDrZn8cA71YfipNdU2B7WY88hjjkd9GFDv30/edit?usp=sharing
Front page image of Israel Ha-Yom newspaper: fair use intended.
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
Usually I have used this pronunciation for reading of Biblical passages. But occasionally I make recordings of other early Hebrew material in it. This prayer (in some form) would have been known to the users of the Tiberian reading tradition, though.
This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
As with all reconstructions, this is at more than one level hypothetical. In listening to this, you are doing something less like watching a documentary than watching a well-researched work of historical fiction.
The cantillation is basically a loose adaptation of Yerushalmi/Ḥalabi, and isn't meant to reflect the traditional Tiberian melodies (which we just do not have enough data to convincingly reconstruct, though lots of people have lost their minds in whacky attempts to do so.)
A frequently asked question here is "Were the Tiberian Hebrew resh and vav really pronounced like that? Sounds suspiciously like Modern Hebrew."
The answer is yes, yes they were. For more on these, see Geoffrey Khan's book which is the basis of the reconstruction used here, and available for free from the following site:
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0163#
The opening of the book of Genesis, chanted using a reconstruction of Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation. This pronunciation, used by the Masoretes in Early Medieval Galilee, is the one the Hebrew vowel signs we're all familiar with were actually designed to record. I decided to create such recordings because despite the profusion of data about this reading dialect and its importance for the later history of Hebrew (such as in the the development of the vocalization signs), I couldn't find anybody who had actually taken the liberty of making a recording that used all the most recent research on this dialect to give an idea of what it (may have) actually sounded like (for example, we now know that the vav was indeed labiodental in this dialect, and that vowel length was indeed at least somewhat contrastive.)
As with all reconstructions, this is at more than one level hypothetical. In listening to this, you are doing something less like watching a documentary than watching a well-researched work of historical fiction.
As you can probably tell, I am not an especially well-practiced cantor at all.
I apologize for the poor rendering of the Hebrew diacritics. iMovie is not very cooperative on this score.
If you want to hear more recordings in Tiberian Hebrew, (including a recording of this passage without cantillation) you can find them on my soundcloud playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/alex-foreman-209218576/sets/bible-readings-in-tiberian
Tiberian Hebrew is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Judea c.750–950 CE. They wrote in the form of Tiberian vocalization, which employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs and consonant diacritics (nequdot) and the so-called accents (two related systems of cantillation signs or te'amim). These together with the marginal notes masora magna and masora parva make up the Tiberian apparatus.
Though the written vowels and accents came into use only c. 750 CE, the oral tradition they reflect is many centuries older, with ancient roots. Although not in common use today, the Tiberian pronunciation of Hebrew is considered by textual scholars to be the most exact and proper pronunciation of the language as it preserves all of the original Semitic consonantal and vowel sounds of ancient Hebrew.
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Today's Hebrew grammar books do not teach the Tiberian Hebrew described by the early grammarians. The prevailing view is that of David Qimchi's system of dividing the graphic signs into "short" and "long" vowels. The values assigned to the Tiberian vowel signs reveals a Sephardi tradition of pronunciation (the dual quality of qames (אָ) as /a/, /o/; the pronunciation of simple sheva (אְ) as /ɛ̆/).