He ist absolutely right. We are to perceive Ancient Hebrew as a historical language - avtually there is no contemporary speaker of that language anymore. And as far as BIBLICAL Hebrew is concerned it is important to keep in mind that it is an artificial language, mixing up several synchronic and diachronic different layers (registers, dialects and so on). So, what is BIBLICAL Hebrew to speak? See, for instance, Edward Ullendorf's important studies "Is Biblical Hebrew a language?" and other papers in his: Is Biblical Hebrew a language?, Wiesbaden 1977, and, more recently, E.A.Knauf, War "Biblisch-hebräisch" eine Sprache? Empirische Gesichtspunkte zur linguistischen Annäherung an die Sprache der althebräischen Literatur: ZAH 3 (1990) 11-23.
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