Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Jubilees chapter 12:

24 And I will be a God to thee and thy son, and to thy son's son, and  
to all thy seed: fear not, from
25 henceforth and unto all generations of the earth I am thy God.' And  
the Lord God said: 'Open his mouth and his ears, that he may hear and  
speak with his mouth, with the language which has been revealed'; for  
it had ceased from the mouths of all the children of men from the day  
of the
26 overthrow (of Babel). And I opened his mouth, and his ears and his  
lips, and I began to speak
27 with him in Hebrew in the tongue of the creation. And he took the  
books of his fathers, and these were written in Hebrew, and he  
transcribed them, and he began from henceforth to study them, and I  
made known to him that which he could not (understand), and he studied  
them during the six

There is a bit here that Karl will like. It says:

And he took the books of his fathers, and these were written in  
Hebrew, and he transcribed them,

James Christian



Quoting Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>:

> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:03 AM, James Read wrote:
>
> > According to Jubilees, I take it, that Hebrew was the original
> > language spoken by all preflood. Writing was taught to Enoch by
> > angels. After the incident at Babel Hebrew was forgotten. The angels
> > taught it to Abraham and after his death it was forgotten again. So
> > the angels taught it to Moses.
>
> I looked it up in the book of Jubilees and while knowledge is
> described, I don't see it as speaking about language, and
> definitely not about Hebrew.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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