isaac, you really outdid yourself this time!
nir cohen On Tue, 7 May 2013 11:53:04 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote >.....But all this is of no interest to > Hebrew, and will not be accepted, on emotional - ideological > grounds, by the Europeans, the same way some people vehemently > reject the idea that man evolved from ape. Will the English submit > to the idea that their queen is speaking pidgin Hebrew? > > 2. The idea of Proto-Semitic was introduced into "Hebrew Studies" at > the Hebrew University in Jerusalem by professors who were educated > in Germany and Austria, where they picked it from the immutable > prevailing belief in Proto-IE. They eagerly adopted it, I believe, > to sound scientific, and thus gain acceptance. We don't need > Germany's academic approval any more, possibly the reverse. > > 3. Aramaic appears to me to be but bastard Hebrew, and the genetic > relationship between Hebrew and Arabic is a mystery, and so any > search for a common ancestral language is, in my opinion, futile. I > dismiss "Akkadian" and "Ugaritic" as they are but tentative > languages, and of which I know nothing (and I don't think they are > worth the effort to "study".) > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
