Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Which, I assume, is hardly the Hebrew that Isaac speaks - although I might
be totally wrong.


Yigal Levin

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Kilmon [mailto:jkilmon AT historian.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:18 AM
To: Yigal Levin
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Piel Participles of ayin-waw-yod

There are scholars who believe Yemenite Hebrew is closest to ancient Hebrew.

Jack Kilmon

--------------------------------------------------
From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 1:40 AM
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Piel Participles of ayin-waw-yod

> Really? Did Moses use Ashkenazic or Sephardic pronunciation?
>
> Come on, surely you realize that today's Hebrew is the end product (so 
> far)
> of several thousand years of change, due to both internal factors and
> external influences. One of the problems that speakers of modern Hebrew 
> have
> understanding the biblical text is when they assume that phrases have the
> same meaning there as they do today (although I don't think that this
> permanently handicaps them, like some folks on this list do).
>
>
> Yigal Levin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Fried
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:00 AM
> To: Uri Hurwitz
> Cc: Hebrew List
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Piel Participles of ayin-waw-yod
>
> There is no "modern" Hebrew. We still speak the same biblical Hebrew,
> only slightly adapted for everyday use.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> b-hebrew mailing list
> b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
>
>