[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
Sarah J. Blake
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