Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:36 PM
Subject: RE: "Is Biblical Hebrew a Language?"



>
> 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?

Are we forgetting the important impact culture has in defining a "language?"

Jack

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