Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

As a venture to start answering them we see that Abraham seems to have  
no problem communicating when he goes to Egypt. That seems to suggest  
one of the following possibilities to me:

1) Abraham's first language was the same as the language spoken in  
Egypt at the time
2) Their languages were so similar that they could get by without  
having use an agreed second language
3) Abraham, the traveller, was multilingual and spoke Egyptian as a  
second language (not difficult for him to learn because of its  
similarities)

James Christian



Quoting George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>:

> A very good set of questions, Sarah! A lot of work has been done on   
> most of them, but to my knowledge there is no real synthesis or   
> consensus. That's opportunity for further investigation and   
> processing.
>
> Glad to see that I'm not the only early riser on the list (or are   
> you actually a night owl?).
>
>
> Regards,
>
> GEORGE ATHAS
> Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
> www.moore.edu.au
>
>
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