Isaac: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote:
> … > I would not dare give a closed form definition to "Biblical" Hebrew, > In other words, is this not an admission that you really don’t know Biblical Hebrew? > but in contrast to it, spoken Hebrew does not use the Waw "HAHIPUK", rarely > (except in poetry) uses the Heh HA$ELAH, rarely uses A$ER, refrains from > using heavily inflected words, and is strict on tense. > Biblical Hebrew doesn’t have tenses, modern Israeli does. Different grammars, different languages. > > Isaac Fried, Boston University > > Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
