Accents & Purpose

What they're there for
and why they matter

Where to get information

1. BHS Insert
2. BHQ Prologue
3. Simplified Guide to the BHS
4. Textbooks and the interwebs
   (Fuller & Choi)
5. James Price

What the Accents Do

• Provide cantillation
• Structure verses
  • connect words
  • divide sections
• Help to codify orality
  • Dagesh lenes
  • Pausal forms

Complicating Factors

• Two Accenting Systems
  • Common Accents (21 Books)
  • Poetic Accents (3 Books: Psalms, Job, Proverbs)*
    • * Technically not the whole of Job
    • Only Job 3:2–42:6
• More than one Accent Tradition
  • Ten Commandments (Exod 20, Deut 5)
  • Gen 35:22

Accents & order

How to learn as little as possible

Handy Digital Helpers...

https://www.tanakhml.org/d21.php2xml

(click “accents”)

https://openscriptures.github.io/morphhb/structure/OshbVerse/

Accents & Examples

Yay, actual texts...