Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Joseph Justiss <jljustiss AT msn.com>]

Would the discussion of whether or not Hebrew is a dead language be served by 
introducing the category of "living informant" to the discussion.  Since 
biblical Hebrew has no living informants, e.g. Moses or David, whom we could 
ask about the syntactical function of clause initial Yiqtols in narrative and 
speech and poetry, shouldn't we consider it dead--that is, in the sense of no 
living informants?

 

This discussion is important because it bears directly on how the language 
should be studied properly.

 

Joe Justiss

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