Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

isaac,

yes, he wrote it in mesha-at language, and even mesha-on and mesha-it 
could understand it. the reason is that he was doing PR and wanted as 
many people as possible to read his post and know his victories. 
just like today's bloggers.

i do not even know if the moabites, a half nomad people, had any 
proper literature to draw on in terms of style, so probably the
high brow venue was not even an option for him. 

reading the stone one easily observes that the message is put 
simple and clear; the sentences are short and do not apply epic 
rhyme nor word variation; the vocabulary is very basic. so, he 
did not have style in mind. 

and, he used qatal and wayiqtol the same way it is used in BH.

you can read his stone, reproduced in modern hebrew letters in wikipedia.

regards
nir cohen

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:32:25 -0500, Isaac Fried wrote
> No doubt that Mesha wrote (or had a scribe do it, mistakes and all)  
> his stone in "Biblical Hebrew style". The question is if at home,  
> talking to Mesha-at his wife or to his children he said VA-E-QAX HA- 
> BOQER $NEI MELAPEPONIYM V-AGBANIYA VA-A-AS LI SALAT, or LAKAX-TIY HA-
>  BOQER $NEI MELAPEPONIYM V-AGBANIYA V-ASITIY LI SALAT?
> 
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
> 
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:
> 
> >> Do you think somebody ever spoke "Biblical Hebrew"?
> >
> >> Isaac Fried, Boston University
> >
> > mesha king of moab.   :)  :)
> >
> > nir cohen
> >
> >
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