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  • From: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il>
  • To: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: "Is Biblical Hebrew a language?", etc.
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:37:52 +0200


After having studied the Siloam Inscription, the Lachish Letters and
various other examples of First Temple Judaean epigraphy, I didn't
exactly get the impression that Biblical Hebrew was a "learned" or
"artificial" dialect. Is the English you read in the New York Times or
in history textbooks a "learned" or "artificial" dialect as compared to,
say, the English of TV talk shows? (BTW, is someone trying to claim that
the language of Deuteronomy, the language of Job and the language of
Esther all represent the same stages or the same strata of the language?
Pardon my ignorance).
Sincerely,

--
Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
Beit Berl Post Office 44905
Israel






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