To: Michael Abernathy <mabernathy AT isot.com>, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] exodus, dating of linguistics
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 06:51:52 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Michael,
Only in personal names is there internal linguistic evidence in the HB
that something new started with the Moses narratives (Alt). I refer to the
Yahwist element in theophoric names, that is the component yaho/ yo/yah ,
such as Yokebed,(YWKBD) the mother of Moses. This component is found either
in the beginning of the name as above or at the end cf. ELIYHW , Elijah.
Incidentally, this has nothing to do with the assumptions mentioned in your
first paragraph.
Uri
Michael Abernathy <mabernathy AT isot.com> wrote:
Just for the sake of discussion, I have a question for the group. Assuming
that the Exodus actually occurred as it is described in the Bible and that it
was recorded by someone about the time of Joshua, what linguistic evidence
would we expect to find in the Scriptures?
I should think that the strongest evidence would be in those passages which
have been miscopied by a later scribe due to some change in the language that
obscurred the meaning.
Has anyone detailed the differences in the Hebrew language from a historical
perspective?
Sincerely,
Michael Abernathy
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> Please would someone explain to me whether Aramaic is different enough
> from Hebrew that speakers of one language wouldn't be able to understand
> speakers of the other language, or would they be able to follow the
> majority of it apart from an occasional word?
I suspect that it would be rather difficult for a speaker of one
language who had no contact with the other to understand. On this issue
I think it's important to realize that Aramaic itself is practically a
family of languages, with a rather diverse array of dialects. So even if
your question were applied to different Aramaic dialects, it might turn
out that speakers would have a difficult time undertanding one another.
I'm not a native speaker of any of them, so it's hard for me to say. You
might want to try asking this question on the Aramaic list
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aramaic/) or ANE
(https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ane).