Biblical Hebrew Forum

[belaga AT math.u-strasbg.fr]

I do agree with you that the haste whith which James Christian has put  
you in the superstition corner should be rebuked.

Myself, I am very grateful to you for this references of which I knew  
only part.

This rather typical exchange raises the question: to what degree  
should we take care of what the Biblical sources and related Jewish  
and Christian commentaries of the distant past speak about.

Here, the camps of believers and skeptics look at each other with disdain.

Myself, a "hard" scientist as I am, I have chosen to take such sources  
with the greatest seriousness.

Dr. Edward G. Belaga
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Quoting Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, James Read wrote:
> > Sure. I get the logic. You could also make an argument based on Adam's name.
> > But these arguments are by no means conclusive.
>
> I don't know why you think I even intended to claim these arguments
> were very strong or that the story of Babel to be necessarily historical.
> I don't.  You just said "I did once hear a theory that Hebrew must be
> the mother of all languages and that there was some biblical support
> for this. However, try as I might, I haven't been able to find any ..." So
> I provided the source where "some biblical support" for the idea might
> be adduced.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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