To: "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: "Is Biblical Hebrew a Language?"
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:36:03 +0200
To Jonathan,
Well, if only Shakespeare. The English educated people will tell you about
an amazingly collection of words in Shakespeare's works. I once heard 35.000
but that cannot be true but Shakespeare's language abilities was far beyond
any other person I know of, so his example was probably not a very well
chosen one.
To Charles, who wrote:
In my view, Ullendorf is almost certainly correct. In fact, it may be more
appropriate to speak of biblical Hebrew as a dialect of Canaanite than as a
language proper.