Subject: [b-hebrew] Mishnaic Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:44:01 +0100
Hi,
recent discussions have caused me a lot of confusion. There have been
a lot of references to 'Mishnaic Hebrew' with no-one actually
providing a definition of the term. My logical assumption was that
people were talking about the Hebrew of the Mishnah which summarises
Rabbinic debates from 70-200 i.e. a period which is post second temple
period. However, the term has been used in debates to refer to Hebrew
of the second temple period. This is quite confusing.
While we can look to MSS of the Mishnah to understand the Hebrew used
to compose it is there anything at all written in Hebrew from the
second temple period that we can use to define the form of second
temple period Hebrew?
James Christian
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[b-hebrew] Mishnaic Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew,
James Read, 09/01/2009