Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

BH is a dialect within the language family of Northwest Semitic, also known
as Amoritic, attested since the second half of the 3rd millenium BCE. It is
well attested especially in Amorite names in the Mari letter (Huffmon wrote
a book about those thirty years ago); it's the dialect behind the Amarna
letters written in Syrian And Palestine, and it is of course very well
attested in a North Syrian form from the LBA in the texts from Ugarit. Then
a few letters in 'Ugaritic' cuneiform from Ta'anekh and other places. 1st
millennium see a diversification in a number of dialects, Phoenician,
Palestinian Hebrew (inscriptions), Moabite, Ammonite. Then we have BH and
diverse developments of the language in espec. Qumran literature and more.


NPL


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Maria Solarez [SMTP:funi AT earthlink.net]
        Sent:   Wednesday, June 21, 2000 18:38
        To:     Biblical Hebrew
        Cc:     Biblical Hebrew
        Subject:        Re: "Is Biblical Hebrew a Language?"

        Thank you for this wonderful food for thought and discussion.

        Is there enough of the Canaanite language around to consider BH a
dialect or subset?
        Is enought known about the society at the time span of the writings
of BH to be
        certain that the Canaanite language is not a subset of something
else?

        Forgive my lack of precision in this setting. however, my questions
remains Enlighten
        me please..

        Maria



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