So can your hard evidence be found within the Scriptures or must it be found in academics outside of the Scriptures? Do we find written in Egypt, Babylon, Aztec or Chinese script that "Hey, we got this from the Hebrews"? Umm, not that I have located. It is still conjecture and under much pressure not to be so from general academics. Many still think, if there is a mother tongue, it is some language that consisted of mostly grunting, pointing and smashing heads.
My thoughts run from the softer philosophical side of life that it would be impossible to have HARD PROOF if you discounted the Torah/Scriptures etc. It is in them and only them that we see God - YHVH - and His plan and His purpose - fully disclosed. Within that scope we can trace a single language - to multiple languages - to the promise of a single, I believe it is called "pure", language in the prophets. Being a believer of the Messiah I see that He gives the first witness (what people was he "born" into) and Paul the second that the Hebrew's are that one people, that language and that thought process which was placed here for that one purpose of bringing context to the disclosure of the AlMighty. But to see my point of view you have to be disposed to BELIEVE the Tower of Babel, that there is/was/will be a Messiah, and that there are Scriptures dealing with age in the future of the writers, and obviously beyond our own, time frame. None of which has much Hard Evidence to it. As I began studying the possibility of a single, intelligent designed language source; I did not find an outside source, and few in the believing community, that give the idea any credit. In fact, while it makes much sense to me, there was not much reason for them to even consider a source language let alone a Hebrew source language. Just the philosophical argument. Dee
