> To the best of my recollection I was posing questions and not answering
> them.
'You've completely sidestepped the issue...' — linguistics!.
Oxford Dictionary: linguistics (n) the scientific study of language and its
structure.
> a) did the Hebrew used to write the Torah come about as a dialect that
> evolved from the Egyptian that the hebrews spoke while in Egypt.....
Where's the linguistic question?
> Is Hebrew a direct descendant of Canaanite?
Did you read/study the classic stuff?
William L. Moran, The Hebrew Language in Its Northwest Semitic Background --
in The Bible and the Ancient Near East, Essays in Honor of William F.
Albright, NY, 1965, pp.59-84.
Frank M. Cross, The Development of the Jewish Scripts -- in The Bible and the
Ancient Near East, Essays in Honor of William F. Albright, NY, 1965,
pp.170-264
Joseph Naveh, Early History of the Alphabet (Hebrew title & English title)
Angel S. Badillos, A History of the Hebrew Language.
Best,
David Hamuel
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Biblical Hebrew, Grammar & Cantillation Expert
Los Angeles, CA — USA
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