Fred: You are making presuppositions for which neither you nor anyone else has any evidence.
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:59 AM, fred burlingame <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all: > > ויקראו בספר בתורת האלהים מפרש ושום שכל ויבינו במקרא > > 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. > This reflects not the original audience who were contemporaries of Moses and Joshua, rather many centuries later after Hebrew had ceased to be spoken as a native tongue. Hebrew continued to be learned and every male was expected to have at least some knowledge of Hebrew, but how many actually mastered Hebrew? > > regards, > > fred burlingame > Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
