Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Fred, very few serious people, including the sages of the Talmud or the 
Medieval Jewish writers, have claimed that Hebrew was LINGUISTICALLY unique. 
On the contrary, they routinely cited parallels in related languages. 
Hebrew's status as a "holy tongue" is based on the belief that God chose to 
reveal his word in that language, perhaps even to create the world in it. But 
that belief is beyond the purview of this list.

Yigal Levin

-----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, January 04, 2011 8:33 PM
To: K Randolph
Cc: B-Hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects

perhaps you missed the phrase לשון קדש ; and its countless adherents .... ;
then again ... perhaps you didn't ...

regards,

fred burlingame

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:19 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Fred:
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:19 AM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello James;
>>
>>
>>
>> All of these circumstances yield the conclusion that BH formed a unique
>> language in the orbit of human events ..... not.
>>
>> Is there anyone, on this list or anywhere in the world, who claims that
> “BH formed a unique
> language in the orbit of human events”? Why state the obvious?
>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> fred burlingame
>>
>> Karl W. Randolph.
>
>
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