Hebrew Pronunciation?

It has been a long time. I thought I read a few months back that some problems had been figured out when it came to the Hebrew pronunciation add-in. Is there any kind of update to this product?

Will there be a product like the Audio Greek New Testament ......except for Hebrew Old Testament?

William

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Fred Chapman

With Barnes going over 80% on community pricing; I suspect we will see a projected delivery date on the Hebrew Pronunciation add-in soon; and then the end times.[;)]

To answer your question, I have not seen or heard anything since the last update your referred to.

Matt Hamrick

I think this is what you might be looking for.

http://www.logos.com/product/5960/hebrew-audio-pronunciations

David Paul

It would be better if they just didn't bother, since the chances that it will be remotely accurate are remote. I have yet to find a Hebrew grammar that doesn't have numerous mistakes in both consonant and vowel vocalization...not to mention that I don't think I've found two grammars that even agree with each other. And apparently no one has the guts to call them on this disaster. It doesn't help that many insist on using Modern Hebrew as their starting point, since Modern Hebrew is schizophrenic...Ashkenzi, Sephardic, Babylonian, et al., all having schemes that compete with each other for which can introduce the most errors in spelling and pronunciation. Add to this train wreck the insistance people have for inventing a new transliteration scheme for English every time the sun comes up and the result is nothing short of a catastrophe.

Of course, the same thing happened in Greek, though to a far lesser extent. The loooong established and wholly unwarranted Anglicization that turned the upsilon ("u") into a "y" (thus turning psuchei into psyche, for instance) is nothing short of a senseless hate crime.

Todd Phillips

It would be better if they just didn't bother, since the chances that it will be remotely accurate are remote. I have yet to find a Hebrew grammar that doesn't have numerous mistakes in both consonant and vowel vocalization...not to mention that I don't think I've found two grammars that even agree with each other. And apparently no one has the guts to call them on this disaster. It doesn't help that many insist on using Modern Hebrew as their starting point, since Modern Hebrew is schizophrenic...Ashkenzi, Sephardic, Babylonian, et al., all having schemes that compete with each other for which can introduce the most errors in spelling and pronunciation. Add to this train wreck the insistance people have for inventing a new transliteration scheme for English every time the sun comes up and the result is nothing short of a catastrophe.

Why does historical accuracy matter? Aren't most people learning to pronounce so they can communicate in modern classroom and academic situations? Seems that as long as the two people discussing a word understand which word they mean, it doesn't matter that an ancient Hebrew wouldn't. Or am I missing something else? We have the same issues with any ancient language.

David Paul

It matters because the refusal to be accurate introduces numerous contradictions and flagrant absurdities. Like I said, I haven't found two Hebrew grammars that agree with each other, and this is in great part because they each insist on their own way...only to introduce further inaccuracies. I have been in conversations with people and heard four different people pronouncing the same word four different ways...all of them wrong. It's a shameful way to treat the language of YHWH.

Fred Chapman

I guess David is not anxiously awaiting the release of this tool as many of us are (and our father's before us[:D])