Modern Hebrew is, I think, closer to Biblical Hebrew than modern English is to Shakespearean English; my elementary school study of the Torah was a perfectly effective foundation for modern conversational Hebrew.
Lewis Reich
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On Apr 27, 2013 1:00 PM, "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:Modern Hebrew is a very different creature from Biblical Hebrew—different grammar, different vocabulary, different spelling, different expressions, etc. I don’t know modern Israeli Hebrew, nor other cognate languages, hence my understanding of Biblical Hebrew is uncontaminated from such sources.
Karl W. Randolph.
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