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Nehemiah 8:8 implies the highly trained scribes and/or priests represented the exclusive and intended consumers of the written biblical language. These temple officials orally explained the meaning of the written language to the people. The technical ongoing discussion at this forum of the written language tends to support that view. Perhaps the 736 page textbook on Dermatologic Differential Diagnosis further confirms the point. The language and vocabulary of that book intended for a relatively few highly trained physicians, who in turn orally explain to their customers in simpler every day language, relevant technical written points. And certainly, the mainstream religions today, hew to that view. A grand canyon, broad and deep, appears to have existed between written biblical hebrew and the spoken language. regards, fred burlingame _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
