Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Fred, 

 

While your original question, as it stood, was legitimate, your follow-up
responses moved the discussion more and more into the realm of faith, which
is not. Your use of the link below to back up your claims, which are not
linguistic in nature but rather question what people believe, is totally out
of bounds.

 

This thread is closed, which is a shame, because it could have been a
fruitful one had it remained focused on linguistics. Any additional posts
(under the present or any other title) will be treated as violations of list
rules.

 

 

Yigal Levin,

 

Co-moderator, B-Hebrew

 

From: fred burlingame [mailto:tensorpath AT gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 5:38 PM
To: Yigal Levin
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects

 

Hello Yigal:

 

The original question asked whether anyone claimed the uniqueness of the
biblical hebrew language ("BH"). Neither you or anyone else objected to the
question as inappropriate to this forum. I don't see how reasonable
objection can be made to my responsive answers, under that circumstance. 

 

But that being said, I am not unmindful that the facts probably support a
conclusion of BH linguistic commonness; whereas faith supports the
conclusion of BH uniqueness.

 

I don't know the authors of this link; or the authors listed in the link. I
have no opinion about their claims. So, I cannot say whether they fit within
your term of "serious." Their claims of language monogenesis and BH as the
original language, certainly attest however, that a significant number of
people claim the linguistic uniqueness of BH, via its status as the first
language of species human.

 

http://www.remnantofyhwh.com/Hebrew%20The%20Purel%20Language.htm

 

regards,

 

fred burlingame