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  • From: davidfentonism AT aim.com
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] comparative historical linguistics was Re: Nun-Tav-Vet root
  • Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:55:34 -0500

Since there is not one single biblical Hebrew, given its evolution with some
overlapping and the introduction of Aramaic, pre- and-post-exile, I would
very much appreciate being edified as to what is meant by "biblical Hebrew"
here. I presume it is not being limited to one period and therefore is not
limited to one stage of its development.

Thank you.

David Fenton
NYC
-----Original Message-----
From: peter AT qaya.org
To: bjwvmw AT com-pair.net
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] comparative historical linguistics was Re:
Nun-Tav-Vet root

... the difference here is largely one of terminology. I think
everyone (except presumably those who believe that the Exodus did not
happen at all) would accept that the early Israelites in Egypt, and
continuing as they left Egypt and moved to Canaan, spoke a NW Semitic
language form which developed continuously into the biblical Hebrew of
the monarchy period. As such it is not unreasonable to call this
language, as spoken at the time of the Exodus, something like early
Hebrew. As for whether the Torah was composed in this early Hebrew and
subsequently unchanged (such that early Hebrew is biblical Hebrew), or
was composed in early Hebrew and later updated into something more like
the Hebrew of the monarchy period, or was not composed at all until the
monarchy period, we really don't know apart from any faith positions we
might take.


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