Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jason Hare <jaihare AT gmail.com>]

Hey, Mark. Linguists do not generally accept the story of Genesis.
Languages can be traced back to several families, which are not in any
measurable way similar to one another. It doesn't seem possible that
there was a single parent language that produced all of these
languages, at least from the linguistic perspective.

Best regards,
Jason Hare
Rehovot, Israel

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Mark Spitsbergen <awakesd AT mac.com> wrote:
>
> To which side does the weight of the evidence rest regarding the "one
> language" of Genesis 11:1,6: was it Biblical Hebrew, proto- Hebrew or
> a completely unrelated language from that found in the Bible? I can
> accept  the notion that there is a possibility that nothing of the pre-
> bavel language remained after God "confounded their language", my
> desire is to understand the current conclusions set forth in the
> paleolinguist research on the subject.  The one thing that I have come
> to expect from this list are a lot of passionate and differing views.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Spitsbergen
>