unknown wrote the book of hebrew in the bible.
who wrote the book of hebrew in the bible?
unknown
a common name of god in the hebrew bible is elohim (). despite the "-im" ending common to many plural nouns in hebrew, the word "elohim" when referring to god is grammatically singular, and takes a singular verb in the hebrew bible. the word is identical to the usual plural of "el" meaning gods or magistrates, and is cognate to the "lhm" found in ugaritic, where it is used for the pantheon of canaanite gods, the children of el and conventionally vocalized as "elohim" although the original ugaritic vowels are unknown. when the hebrew bible uses "elohim" not in reference to god, it is plural (for example, exodus 20:2). there are a few other such uses in hebrew, for example "behemoth". in modern hebrew, the singular word "ba'alim" ("owner") looks plural, but likewise takes a singular verb.
names of god in judaism
after the talmud, various regional literary dialects of medieval hebrew evolved. the most important is tiberian hebrew or masoretic hebrew, a local dialect of tiberias in galilee that became the standard for vocalizing the hebrew bible and thus still influences all other regional dialects of hebrew. this tiberian hebrew from the 7th to 10th century ce is sometimes called "biblical hebrew" because it is used to pronounce the hebrew bible; however, properly it should be distinguished from the historical biblical hebrew of the 6th century bce, whose original pronunciation must be reconstructed. tiberian hebrew incorporates the remarkable scholarship of the masoretes (from "masoret" meaning "tradition"), who added vowel points and grammar points to the hebrew letters to preserve much earlier features of hebrew, for use in chanting the hebrew bible. the masoretes inherited a biblical text whose letters were considered too sacred to be altered, so their markings were in the form of pointing in and around the letters. the syriac alphabet, precursor to the arabic alphabet, also developed vowel pointing systems around this time. the aleppo codex, a hebrew bible with the masoretic pointing, was written in the 10th century, likely in tiberias, and survives to this day. it is perhaps the most important hebrew manuscript in existence.
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