Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

Fred:

I am going to continue to call you out on this repeated over and over false 
red herring that Hebrew "died" or anyone claimed that it died out.

Jack Kilmon

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From: "fred burlingame" <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:25 PM
To: <yodan AT yodanco.com>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] hebrew is dead?

> more bad news for the purveyors of the two great languages, aramaic in the
> east and greek in the west, circa 10 a.d.
>
> profound consequences attach to the best selling book of all time, given
> the failure of biblical hebrew language to die and receive a nice funeral
> & burial circa 400 - 100 b.c.
>
> regards,
> fred burlingame
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Yodan <yodan AT yodanco.com> wrote:
>
> > In addition to what Nir Cohen wrote, with which I agree, and there is
> > evidence - and books about this topic - that support the argument
> > (actually,
> > fact) that Hebrew never ceased to be used in prayer, writing, and 
> > speaking,
> > I'd like to add:
> >
> > Modern Hebrew evolved from a previous form of Hebrew, which evolved from 
> > a
> > previous form of Hebrew, etc., etc. until we get to the form of Hebrew 
> > that
> > EVOLVED form Biblical Hebrew. It cannot be a coincidence that there is so
> > much similarity between Biblical and modern Hebrew, so much so that 
> > Israeli
> > Hebrew speakers/readers can read the Biblical text and understand a
> > substantial % of the words and their context, as well as the verses and 
> > the
> > meaning of the text.
> >
> > I don't know the % and it differs between the different Biblical 
> > sections,
> > some of which also depends not only on Hebrew knowledge but on
> > understanding
> > the historical context of a particular section. In any event, my belief 
> > is
> > that it's substantial!
> >
> > I'm an Israeli (raised and educated in Israel, including graduate school
> > (in
> > science, not in Hebrew language or literature etc.), who has lived in the
> > U.S. for some years and I can read everything in the Tanakh and 
> > understand
> > a
> > large number of words - at least 80% - in their context and also much of
> > the
> > context, the level of which depends on the sections.
> >
> > If modern Hebrew evolved from Biblical Hebrew, the latter cannot be 
> > dead -
> > nothing can evolve from something dead!
> >
> > ERGO, Biblical Hebrew hasn't really died, it evolved.
> >
> > Rivka Sherman-Gold
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of fred burlingame
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:23 AM
> > To: Nir cohen - Prof. Mat.
> > Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] hebrew is dead?
> >
> > this is not good news.
> >
> > for the announced purpose of the latter 1/3 of this document included an
> > existential debate with your minority of hebrew scholars below about 
> > their
> > biblical hebrew language scrolls. And such debate, framed in the context 
> > of
> > the great language of the west (greek) or the great language of the east
> > (aramaic) at that time ..... would have likely been met with laughter.
> > http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/default.aspx
> >
> > Clearly, the death, nice funeral and pleasant burial of the biblical 
> > hebrew
> > language, well before that time ... represents a much more palatable
> > version
> > of history.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > fred burlingame
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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