Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] When did Hebrew cease to be a commonly spoken language?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:40:50 -0500
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From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
> Thank you, Matthew, for a very useful summary.
>>
> 1. How do you distinguish between LBH and MH? (This is not a rhetorical
> question; I do want to know the method.) You listed as
> LBH: DSS (including Copper Scroll and 4QMMT), Ben Sira, 1Macc, Formal
> written materials and virtually all literary
> Texts.
> And MH: Cave of Letters, Cave of Horrors, Murabba'at, ABBA.
>
I echo this question, though I would append: what do you mean by LBH? What
you define as LBH may be very different from what I so define. Which Biblical
books do you include therein? What time periods are you talking about?
Karl W. Randolph.
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