Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

>From questions and comments on the list it would seem that Classical Hebrew ,
especially First Temple Hebrew, but probably including Second Temple Hebrew,
here is sometimes treated as a language without continuity, and sometimes even
as if it is a system without ties or counterparts to modern languages.

My question for this list:
When did Classical Hebrew cease to be understood correctly?

(NB: this is not asking about when a particular word or idiom dropped
out of use or was misinterpreted,
but when was the basic system lost to understanding?
When did people no longer know how to understand/interpret,
e.g. the verb system, the words in the binyan system?)

Ezekiel?
Zechariah?
Ezra?
Nehemiah?
Author of Tobit?
Translators of LXX Torah?
Author of 1 Maccabees?
Author of Temple Scroll
Author of Serex ha-Yahad?
Yeshua and contemporaries, e.g. Jerusalem Church?
Tannaitic teachers?
Amoraic teachers? Hieronomos/Jerome?
Saadiya?
Rashi~Radaq?
Christian Renaissance Hebraists?
Gesenius?
Bialik?
Moshe Shamir?
It's still understood by some (though not necessarily all the above)?

We know that 'classical' Hebrew with vayyiqtol and veqatal basically
dropped out of common literary use at the end of the Second Temple.
(The example of bQidd 66 is likely a fragment from an older history.)
But was it already grossly misunderstood or was it part of a
continuous continuity of users?

shalom uvraxot
שלום וברכות

Randall Buth

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