Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  Dear Michael,
   Only in personal names is there internal linguistic evidence in the HB 
that something new started with the Moses narratives (Alt). I refer to the 
Yahwist element in theophoric names, that is the component  yaho/ yo/yah , 
such as  Yokebed,(YWKBD) the mother of  Moses. This component is found either 
in the beginning of the name as above or at the end cf. ELIYHW , Elijah.
  Incidentally, this has nothing to do with the assumptions mentioned in your 
first paragraph.
 
Uri

Michael Abernathy <mabernathy AT isot.com> wrote:
Just for the sake of discussion, I have a question for the group. Assuming 
that the Exodus actually occurred as it is described in the Bible and that it 
was recorded by someone about the time of Joshua, what linguistic evidence 
would we expect to find in the Scriptures?
I should think that the strongest evidence would be in those passages which 
have been miscopied by a later scribe due to some change in the language that 
obscurred the meaning.
Has anyone detailed the differences in the Hebrew language from a historical 
perspective?
Sincerely,
Michael Abernathy 
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Patrina wrote:

> Please would someone explain to me whether Aramaic is different enough
> from Hebrew that speakers of one language wouldn't be able to understand
> speakers of the other language, or would they be able to follow the
> majority of it apart from an occasional word?

I suspect that it would be rather difficult for a speaker of one 
language who had no contact with the other to understand. On this issue 
I think it's important to realize that Aramaic itself is practically a 
family of languages, with a rather diverse array of dialects. So even if 
your question were applied to different Aramaic dialects, it might turn 
out that speakers would have a difficult time undertanding one another. 
I'm not a native speaker of any of them, so it's hard for me to say. You 
might want to try asking this question on the Aramaic list 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aramaic/) or ANE 
(https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ane).

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics