Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Mark Spitsbergen <awakesd AT mac.com>]

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> From a linguistics point of view isn't Ugarit closer to Hebrew than  
> Akkadian? Should we suspect that if Avram actually came from  
> Northern Messopotamia that he was more influenced by Ugarit than  
> Akkadian? I believe (oops not suppose to believe on this list:) that  
> the Akkadian Empire also ruled Northern Messopotamia before 2000 BCE  
> so certainly there would have been an influnence of Akkadian as  
> well. When studing the Ras Shamra text are we possibly looking at  
> ancient Hebrew or a dialect of  ancient Hebrew? Does anyone know of  
> someone who did their dissertation on or a nearly related subject to  
> the relationship of Hebrew and Ugarit.

Thanks,

Mark Spitsbergen
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