Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

isaac,

 you really outdid yourself this time!

nir cohen


On Tue, 7 May 2013 11:53:04 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote
>.....But all this is of no interest to 
> Hebrew, and  will not be accepted, on emotional - ideological 
> grounds, by the  Europeans, the same way some people vehemently 
> reject the idea that  man evolved from ape. Will the English submit 
> to the idea that their  queen is speaking pidgin Hebrew?
> 
> 2. The idea of Proto-Semitic was introduced into "Hebrew Studies" at 
>  the Hebrew University in Jerusalem by professors who were educated 
> in  Germany and Austria, where they picked it from the immutable 
>  prevailing belief in Proto-IE. They eagerly adopted it, I believe,
>  to  sound scientific, and thus gain acceptance. We don't need 
> Germany's  academic approval any more, possibly the reverse.
> 
> 3. Aramaic appears to me to be but bastard Hebrew, and the genetic  
> relationship between Hebrew and Arabic is a mystery, and so any  
> search for a common ancestral language is, in my opinion, futile. I  
> dismiss "Akkadian" and "Ugaritic" as they are but tentative  
> languages, and of which I know nothing (and I don't think they are  
> worth the effort to "study".)
>