Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Barry <nebarry AT verizon.net>]

On 4/9/2013 9:45 PM, George Athas wrote:
> I asked for comparison because when you say a language is 'isolated', it
> begs the question, 'Isolated from what and how?' My appeal to cognates
> was not to ask whether Hebrew was more isolated than these other
> languages, but rather how there is a connection and commonality with
> these languages at all in the first places (the fact there is one
> suggests anything but isolation). I suspect that what you mean by
> 'isolated' is 'static', such that Hebrew does not change at all across
> many centuries. Is that correct?

Does Biblical Hebrew essentially become a literary language, like Latin 
and Greek after a certain period, so that the "koine" continues the 
process of change, but everybody when writing attempts to conform to a 
particular standard? Or is there not enough extra-biblical Hebrew to 
confirm this?

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