Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Isaac:

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

> …
> I would not dare give a closed form definition to "Biblical" Hebrew,
>

In other words, is this not an admission that you really don’t know Biblical
Hebrew?


> but in contrast to it, spoken Hebrew does not use the Waw "HAHIPUK", rarely
> (except in poetry) uses the Heh HA$ELAH, rarely uses A$ER, refrains from
> using heavily inflected words, and is strict on tense.
>

Biblical Hebrew doesn’t have tenses, modern Israeli does. Different
grammars, different languages.

>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
>
Karl W. Randolph.