Biblical Hebrew Forum

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  I must agree, Peter. Further, there is no evidence of ANY pre-Homo Sapiens 
either. None.
 
 David Fenton
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 Gal. 27-29: For as many as have had a tevilah into Moshiach have clothed 
yourselves with Moshiach. There is not Yehudi nor Yevani (Greek), there is 
not eved (servant) nor ben chorin (freedman), there is not zachar (male) nor 
nekevah (female), for you are all echad in Moshiach Yehoshua/Yeshua. And, if 
you belong to Moshiach (YESHAYAH 53:10), then you are of the ZERAH of Avraham 
Avinu, you are yoreshim (heirs) according to the havtachah (promise).   
 -----Original Message-----
 From: peter AT qaya.org
 To: if AT math.bu.edu
 Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
 Sent: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 5:32 AM
 Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] verb forms - Isaiah 56:6-7 was dying you shall die
 
  On 19/04/2007 03:50, Isaac Fried wrote:

> ... Language was  
> created by utterly "primitive" people, and was developed by consensus  
> by still utterly simple minded, yet supremely practical, people  
> (unless you believe in its divine origin). ...

Isaac, you seem to assume here the old but generally discredited idea 
(put forward originally by people who also tended to think that we 
Aryans are less primitive than you Semites, a theory I utterly reject) 
that "primitive" people in ancient times were less intelligent than 
modern people. I don't think there is any evidence for this at least 
since the emergence of Homo sapiens. So, unless you want to claim that 
Hebrew was originally spoken by Neanderthals or other pre-sapiens 
species of Homo, then you should not assume that any human language is 
simple.

-- 
Peter Kirk
E-mail:  peter AT qaya.org
Blog:    http://www.qaya.org/blog/
Website: http://www.qaya.org/

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