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  • From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • To: Darrell Smith <Darrell.H.Smith AT sceptreofjudah.org>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:51:34 -0500

At 03:30 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:

DHS: Of course! All the Semitic languages are from the same ancestoral language: proto-Hebrew. This language was still the language of Noah and his sons (Gen. 11:1). Read Gen chapter 10 and 11. The non-Semitic languages were introduced as mixed-up confusing hodge-podges in Gen 11:7-8. Proto-Hebrew was preserved in the righteous line but as time progressed and the different Semite groups strayed from righteousness their tongues drifted from Hebrew proper. Nevertheless, all Semitic languages are direct descendants of Proto-Hebrew!

Um. I don't think any linguist working today accepts this as a historical possibility.

Jim


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