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  • From: dwashbur AT nyx.net
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] How Long was Hebrew a Living Language?
  • Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:55:37 -0700



On 5 Sep 2009 at 10:11, Randall Buth wrote:

> >> Please note: the references to Aristeas and Josephus were
> >> citations
> >> of local testimony to the phenomenon of Hebrew being spoken in
> >> Judea.
> >> Of course it was selective, the question was 'does such
> testimony
> >> exist?'
> >> It does.
> >
> >I know that's what it was. And yes, it exists. Why? I would
> think the
> >answer would be fairly obvious, given the historical contexts of
> both.
>
> Well, Aristeas needed to explain the need for translators. But he
> did not
> need to state that Aramaic was not the current language of Judea
> and
> he could have said that Hebrew 'had been' the language of Judea.
> But he didn't.

Aristeas was trying to establish the primacy of the LXX, not "explain the
need for
translators." Such a fundamental mistake brings the rest of this "evidence"
into question.



Dave Washburn

http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur




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