Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jonathan Walther <krooger AT debian.org>]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:11:34PM -0300, Airton Jos? da Silva wrote:
> A page, which in the FAQs, answers the question "When did Hebrew cease to be
> spoken?" with "Hebrew has been spoken in one form or another from the
> beginning. As we and others believe, Hebrew was the first language of Adam
> as well as Noah and his descendents. Noah had three sons, of which Shem
> continued the Hebrew language. When the nation of Israel entered the land of
> Israel after the exodus from Egypt (about 1500 BCE), they spoke Hebrew. When
> Israel..." seems to me very questionable if you consider the academic
> resources to the Hebrew Language in the Web.

I may have been innacurate in my question as well; I'm interested in
Hebrew when it was past the stage of using hieroglyphs, but hadn't yet
progressed to the current Gothic lettering style of writing.  Even a
diagram showing the complete alphabet of Middle-Hebrew would be helpful.

Jonathan

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