Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

moshe katav
>I doubt you will find any. >

well, I know of a few, but I would like to know if there are any within
earshot of this list.

>More practically, in real Biblical Hebrew, how could a student say
'The dog ate my homework' or the teacher, 'I left my notes for the
lecture on the bus.' >

alot of simple things can be said, actually.
you could try the following on a gullible teacher:
ha-kelev axal et asher katavti ba-bayit.

> The vocabulary is quite limited. Also the
limited tenses, might make conversation a bit difficult.>

Yes, biblical vocabulary is quite limited. While a class might
be controlled and led into subject matters that BH covers (we
do that at BLC), Ullendorf has elegantly shown that the vocab is
only a piece of the real language. ("Is biblical Hebrew a Language?")
However, your point on the tenses would not have been accepted
by the ancients. They certainly carried on lively conversations and
found the verb system communicative.

but let's see if anyone out there is doing this in classes today?

braxot
Randall Buth


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