Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

The structure of aramaic, and cousin biblical hebrew, is designed for use in
our four dimensional world of space//time; a world of physicality
and constant change. The language structure is not equipped to participate
in some other dimensional universe, bereft of space & time. The vocabulary
suite results from & speaks to our material world.

hence, when isaiah speaks of ארץ and שמים and ימות and ימים ; and when
daniel talks of מלכו , that language represents a language of four
dimensional space/time; not some other dimensional universe. "land;"
"sky;" "die" and "day" imply boundaries; boundaries of space; boundaries of
change; boundaries of time. These words are incompetent to express a world,
a universe, where nothing changes and nothing is possessed of physicality;
in other words the absence of space/time.

and if aramaic and hebrew verbs incompetent to express completed action,
then everyone in the masoretic text both alive and dead,
simultaneously, today.

regards,

fred burlingame


On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:39 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>