Biblical Hebrew Forum

["S. L." <lyosovs AT cityline.ru>]

 Trevor wrote:
>The drawback to Randall's approach is that BH lacks the breadth to
>constitute a real, spoken language. For that matter, as a collection of
>literary dialects, it would probably be appropriate to say that it was
never
>a spoken language as such.
  I believe it is very true and important. Just think of Ullendorf's article
"Was BH a language?" and later contributions on the subject.
    Serge Lyosov