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Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language

From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:20:41 -0700

Fred:

You are making presuppositions for which neither you nor anyone else has any
evidence.

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:59 AM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> ויקראו בספר בתורת האלהים מפרש ושום שכל ויבינו במקרא
>
> Nehemiah 8:8 implies the highly trained scribes and/or priests represented
> the exclusive and intended consumers of the written biblical language.
> These
> temple officials orally explained the meaning of the written language to
> the
> people.
>
> The technical ongoing discussion at this forum of the written language
> tends
> to support that view.
>

This reflects not the original audience who were contemporaries of Moses and
Joshua, rather many centuries later after Hebrew had ceased to be spoken as
a native tongue. Hebrew continued to be learned and every male was expected
to have at least some knowledge of Hebrew, but how many actually mastered
Hebrew?

>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>

Karl W. Randolph.

Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language , (continued)
- Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, Stoney Breyer, 10/29/2010
  - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, fred burlingame, 10/29/2010
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        Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, Stoney andor Anne Breyer, 10/30/2010
    - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, Paul Zellmer, 10/30/2010
      - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, Bryant J. Williams III, 10/30/2010
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, fred burlingame, 10/30/2010
      - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, fred burlingame, 10/30/2010
      - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, Stoney andor Anne Breyer, 10/30/2010
    - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, K Randolph, 10/30/2010
      - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, fred burlingame, 10/30/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, K Randolph, 10/30/2010
  - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, fred burlingame, 10/30/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, George Athas, 10/31/2010
  - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, fred burlingame, 10/31/2010
    - Re: [b-hebrew] the intended consumer of biblical hebrew language, Arnaud Fournet, 10/31/2010