> Hello Karl:
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> Let me see if I understand correctly the current status of biblical
> hebrew
> ("BH") language, facts (versus faith).
>
> 1. We have a circa 1,000 a.d., BH vocalization code (nikkud); and
>
> 2. We have a circa 400 b.c., written BH language, implied by the
> dead sea
> scrolls which contain documents composed in mishnaic hebrew and in
> BH
> language.
The DSS do not contain any documents "composed in mishnaic hebrew."