Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:45:54 -0500
Chris:
Good question. But we can also put it on its head, what warrant is there for
believing that there wasn't a linguistic continuity between the before-Babel
speech and after-Babel language of a certain chosen line?
I submit that the answer to either is merely a matter of faith, as there is a
dearth of information to answer one way or the other.
Karl W. Randolph.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
>
>
> Even if one _does_ accept the historicity of the stories in Genesis 1-11,
> precisely as they are told, what warrant is there for believing that there
> was _any_ linguistic continuity between the before-Babel speech and
> after-Babel languages?
>
> Chris
>
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> R. Christopher Heard
> Assistant Professor of Religion
> Armstrong Fellow in Religion
> Pepperdine University
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