From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
To: wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu, kwrandolph AT gmail.com
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 09:34:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew was linguistically isolated?
Yigal Levin and Will Parsons:
To Prof. Yigal Levin’s comment that “If they wrote at all, the Patriarchs would have written in Canaanite and the Israelite slaves in Egyptian”, Will Parsons responded: “Well, I would think that the Patriarchs would have written in Canaanite because that was their language, but I do think that the Israelite slaves would be unlikely to write in Egyptian.”
Why are you two gentlemen talking about something that is never attested historically? Based on what’s attested historically, there were never any “Israelite slaves” in Egypt. Moreover, there’s no basis for such a supposition linguistically either:
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