Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Piel Participles of ayin-waw-yod


> 1. Moses was a כבד פה וכבד לשון (stutterer?), but he  wrote superb Hebrew 
> that survived to this day.
>
> 2. Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose. Of course Hebrew  "changed", 
> yet it is still, methinks (Gilad Zuckerman  notwithstanding), the same 
> Hebrew. To wit:
> בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
> is still "modern" Hebrew, except that the modern speaker would have  used 
> the less lofty BA-HATXALAH for בראשית and ASAH for ברא  (I am not sure how 
> it is stated in the recently published  "translation" of the Hebrew bible 
> into mundane Hebrew.) Yet, we still  don't understand what really took 
> place at the first nanosecond of  "creation".
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Maybe the real problem starts with the second or third "nanosecond"??

At the first nanosecond, the hypothetical initial state remains the same, is 
it not??

Apparently 3,500 years is not enough to cause any synchronic change.

How much long is a "nano-second" in your personal time-frame???

Please explain.

A.F