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  • From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
  • To: "'Michael Abernathy'" <mabernathy AT isot.com>, "'B-Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] When did Hebrew cease to be a commonly spoken language?
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:35:43 -0400

> You can also find references in the Talmud to Jews in Jerusalem
> seeking a translator because someone asked a question in
> Aramaic. On the other hand, I remember a reference to a Jew
> outside of Israel asking his maid to explain what the Hebrew
> in a passage meant.

If you could find the references for these passages, I would appreciate it.
I had heard of the second anecdote, but I couldn't track it down.

Thanks,
Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PennerThesis





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