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  • From: David Hamuel <davidhamuel AT sbcglobal.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew as a holy language
  • Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 13:16:33 -0700 (PDT)



> 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
Type Designer 
Biblical Hebrew, Grammar & Cantillation Expert

Los Angeles, CA — USA





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