Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

To Jonathan,

Well, if only Shakespeare. The English educated people will tell you about
an amazingly collection of words in Shakespeare's works. I once heard 35.000
but that cannot be true but Shakespeare's language abilities was far beyond
any other person I know of, so his example was probably not a very well
chosen one. 

To Charles, who wrote:

In my view, Ullendorf is almost certainly correct.  In fact, it may be more
appropriate to speak of biblical Hebrew as a dialect of Canaanite than as a
language proper.

maybe a dialect for writing biblical literature?

NP