[b-hebrew] Hebrew as a holy language

Sarah J. Blake sarah at growingstrong.org
Thu May 21 11:37:24 EDT 2009


uoting Jim S.:

> (c)  Linguistics proves the case.  Biblical Hebrew is a virgin pure west
> Semitic language.  Biblical Hebrew is not a modified east Semitic 
> language.

Hebrew grammars classify it as a Northwest Semitic language. For reference:

Christo H.J. van der Merwe, Jackie A. Naudé, and Jan H. Kroeze. A Biblical 
Hebrew Reference Grammar (Sheffield Academic Press, 1999).



Also, an online chart:



http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/semitic.html






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