Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Yitzhak:

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>wrote:

>
> No, I say that the influence is earlier and dates from the period of
> Hezekiah.
> While it is clear Aramaic influence was increasing at the time, I didn't
> think
> it would have effect so soon.  But apparently it did.  Arad 49 is found in
> layer
> VIII that everyone agrees (this is pretty hard to get to when it comes to
> Arad) was destroyed in 701 BCE.  It contains a list of names of donors to
> a Temple, and in this context we see the use bny used for 2 persons and
> 3 persons, with bn used for 1.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
>
> That seems like pretty slim pickings to base a theory on. In other words,
at that time, the people still used good Biblical Hebrew for their daily
speech.

Karl W. Randolph.