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 FIRST PART

ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OR THE SOUNDS AND CHARACTERS

CHAPTER I

THE INDIVIDUAL SOUNDS AND CHARACTERS

(Cf. the Table of Alphabets.)

Among the abundant literature on the subject, special attention is directed to: A. Berliner,, Berlin, 1879, p. 15 ff., on the names, forms, and pronunciation of the consonants in Talmud and Midrash; H. Strack, 3, Lpz. 1906, p. 766 ff.; Benzinger, 2, Tübingen, 1907, p. 172 ff.; Nowack, 2, Freiburg, 1894, i. 279 ff.; Lidzbarski,, Weimar, 1898, i. I73ff.; also his art. 'Hebrew Alphabet,' in the, i, 1901, p. 439 ff. (cf. his, i. 316 ff.); and 'Die Namen der Alphabetbuchstaben', in , ii. 125 ff.; Kenyon, art. 'Writing,' in the, iv. Edinb. 1902, p. 944 ff.; Nöldeke, 'Die semit. Buchstabennamen,' in, Strassb. 1904, p. 124 ff.; F. Praetorius,, Berlin, 1906; H. Grimme, 'Zur Genesis des semit. Alphabets,' in. xx. 1907, p. 49 ff.; R. Stübe,, Munich, 1907; Jermain, , Fort Wayne, 1907.&mdash;L. Blau,, Strassb. 1902; and his 'Ueber d. Einfluss d. althebr. Buchwesens auf d. Originale', &c., in, Frkf. 1903.

The best tables of alphabets are those of J. Euting in G. Bickell's, transl. by S. I. Curtiss, Lpz. 1877; in Pt. vii of the of the Palaeographical Soc., London, 1882; and, the fullest of all, in Chwolson's, Petersburg, 1882; also Lidzbarski's in the , see above.

1. The Hebrew letters now in use, in which both the manuscripts of the O.T. are written and our editions of the Bible are printed, commonly called the, also the  , are not those originally employed.

(or ) writing, as it was used on