Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Fred:

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:07 AM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:

> i see it
>
> you see it
>
> even isaiah sees ...
>
> a time based language ...
>

You need to distinguish between the structure of the language, and the ideas
expressed by the speakers and writers of that language.

Biblical Hebrew is timeless, in that its grammar expresses neither tense nor
aspect, the means by which languages express time. It is not a time based
language.

>
> …
> plenty people see daniel's aramaic language as not the language of יבשתא in
> daniel 2:10; but rather the language of another universe.
>

(brow furled in puzzlement) What in the world do you mean by that? It makes
absolutely no sense.

>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>
> Karl W. Randolph.