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On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Andrew Gross wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 10 Feb 1996, Richard Weis wrote:
> 
> > 10 February, 1996,
> > 
> > In addition to Andrew Gross's comments in reply to Mark and Beth
> > LaRocca-Pitts, one might add two things.
> > 
> > 1.  -hmh is a very common Qumran substitute for the suffix -hm.  Likewise
> > -hnh for -hn, -kmh for -km, etc..
> > 
> > 2.  In general, a more up-to-date reference for the grammar of Qumran Hebrew
> > than Kutscher is Elisha Qimron's _The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls_ (HSS,
> > 29; Atlanta: Scholars, 1986).
> > 
> > Richard Weis
> 
> 
> One thing to keep in mind when using Qimron's grammar is that he only
> covers the non-Biblical Hebrew texts from Qumran.

Just to clarify, for those who may not be familiar with these texts, the 
long endings -hmh, -hnh, etc. _are_ found in some of the biblical texts 
from Qumran, including 1QIsa-a.

Jimmy Adair
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