Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

   It is important to keep in mind, and perhaps to emphasize, that the 
restoration of the top registrar to  "[G] B(  [N]"   is speculative, as is 
the dating of this important find, as is the meaning given it as evidence of 
early taxation system.  None of the above is intended to detract from the 
authenticity and the importance of the find, nor from the professional status 
of Prof. Barkai.   Uri Hurwitz
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Isaac:

Could you elaborate on your question? I'm not familiar with the issue you
seem to be raising. I've always assumed that Biblical Hebrew was a snapshot
or, better said, a series of snapshots, of spoken Hebrew from the date of
authorship of the various texts.

Is there any doubt that Hebrew was the spoken language of  the Israelites
through the period of the Davidic Kingdom and until the  post-exilic
prophets? What features of Biblical Hebrew have been called into  question as 
to
whether they were part of spoken language?

Thanks,
Ted Brownstein


In a message dated 1/3/2012 12:06:35 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
if AT math.bu.edu writes:

We are  still waiting for your evidence that Biblical Hebrew was ever
spoken.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

> It has been well  over two thousand years since anyone spoke Biblical
> Hebrew
> as  his mother tongue