Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Uri:

He knows very little about Mishnaic Hebrew.

However, he sees indications already in Biblical 
Hebrew that after the Babylonian Exile it had 
largely ceased to be a language learned at one's 
mother's knee but still learned and used as a 
religious and civic language. Mishnaic Hebrew, 
being later, therefore would not be a continuation 
of native speaking Biblical Hebrew.

Further, he thinks that it follows an Aramaic 
rather than Hebrew pronunciation, hence many 
Masoretic points (a later development after 
Mishnaic Hebrew) may be wrong (most likely are 
wrong).

But you have a point that it is off topic.

Karl W. Randolph.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Uri Hurwitz" <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
> 
> Karl Randolph wrote, inter alia:
> 
>     ..." I see no use to trying to rehash the question"...
> 
>     Nevertheless he keeps rehashing it. Two things are mystifying here:
> 
>    What does Karl Randolph know about Mishnaic Hebrew, its structure,
>    morphology, verbal forms, lexical features?
> 
>    Secondly, why discuss this at all in a list specifically dealing with
>    B-Hebrew?
> 
>    Uri

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