Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Hamuel <davidhamuel AT sbcglobal.net>]

> To the best of my recollection I was posing questions and not answering 
> them.


'You've completely sidestepped the issue...'  — linguistics!. 

Oxford Dictionary: linguistics (n) the scientific study of language and its 
structure.

> a) did the Hebrew used to write the Torah come about as a dialect that  
> evolved from the Egyptian that the hebrews spoke while in Egypt.....

Where's the linguistic question? 


> Is Hebrew a direct descendant of Canaanite?

Did you read/study the classic stuff?

William L. Moran, The Hebrew Language in Its Northwest Semitic Background -- 
in The Bible and the Ancient Near East, Essays in Honor of William F. 
Albright, NY, 1965, pp.59-84.

Frank M. Cross, The Development of the Jewish Scripts -- in The Bible and the 
Ancient Near East, Essays in Honor of William F. Albright, NY, 1965, 
pp.170-264

Joseph Naveh, Early History of the Alphabet (Hebrew title & English title)

Angel S. Badillos, A History of the Hebrew Language.





Best,

David Hamuel
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