Peter:You wrote the following:
Where have I argued that Hebrew was not used after the Galut Babel?
Karl W. Randolph.
Hebrew had ceased being the language on the street in all but the most remote farming villages by the time of the Maccabees, if not earlier. Yet because it was the language of religion, government and high literature, it continued to be spoken by an educated elite, much like Latin in Europe.
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