[sword-devel] Language codes for Hebrew

[DM Smith]

Interesting. I think this is a better question for a Hebrew scholar or a modern Hebrew speaker. While I’ve studied Hebrew in seminary, I don’t remember any distinction being made. Such a distinction was made in my Greek classes from the start. What is the distinction between ancient and modern Hebrew? What is the date boundary? Do modern Jews make a distinction between modern and ancient Hebrew?

Hebrew as a language died about the 2nd century A.D. It was resurrected as a spoken language fairly recently. And as a written language before that.

For a website on ancient Hebrew, see: http://ancient-hebrew.org/alphabet_history.html <http://ancient-hebrew.org/alphabet_history.html>

This site puts 1100AD as the boundary between Ancient and Modern Hebrew.

From my paltry learning of Hebrew, it appears that what we have is modern Hebrew not ancient.

DM



> On Jan 9, 2016, at 5:01 AM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Did you know that the ISO 639-3 language codes for Ancient (classical) and
> Modern Hebrew are different?
> 
> Ancient = hbo
> Modern = heb
> 
> Does that mean that some of our Biblical Hebrew modules have the wrong lang
> code?
> 
> Prompted by observing that Michael J uses hbo for his two Hebrew Bible
> modules.
> 
> David
> 
> 
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