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And how the language survived and found itself in the Biblia Hebriaca Stuttgartensia?

2006-12-17 14:37:46 · 3 answers · asked by superstes88 3 in Society & Culture Languages

sorry i did not add this earlier, but the earliest tanach is the Septuagint written in greek (not hebrew).

2006-12-17 18:34:49 · update #1

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Biblical Hebrew did not survive the Babylonian Exile--it went extinct as a living language. From 500 BCE until 1948 CE it was only used as a language of religious texts. The OT texts were preserved (that's what you find in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) and the knowledge of how to read them was preserved. There were also other documents written in Hebrew relating to the Jewish faith. But it was much like Latin--no one spoke it, but many learned how to read and write it.

And as a correction, Aramaic was NOT a "blend of Greek and Hebrew". Aramaic was a separate language related to Hebrew, but not its descendant. It was a cousin to Hebrew. Its descendants are still spoken today in Iraq and parts of Syria and Turkey. The modern languages Assyrian and Chaldean are both descendants of Aramaic, as is Samaritan.

2006-12-17 17:16:38 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0 0

I am not sure exactly what you are asking, but the Jewish people have always been very committed to keeping their texts and learning alive. Even though Hebrew died off for a while as a spoken language (it was revived in the 19th century) the Jews were still reading the Tanach (Torah, Prophets, and other canonized scriptures), as well as the Mishna, and thus were able to keep the language on a metaphoric life support system. Also, they spoke Aramaic for centuries, which was a blend between Greek and Hebrew. Does any of this answer your question?

2006-12-17 16:20:10 · answer #2 · answered by 4ever learning 2 · 0 1

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2016-11-30 21:52:35 · answer #3 · answered by lemmer 4 · 0 0

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