Isn't modern Hebrew an invented language, as well? I remember Mises saying in Omnipotent Government(I think) that the ancient Hebrews spoke Aramaic and that only the clergy spoke Hebrew.
Here's what Shlomo Sand writes in The Invention of the Jewish People:
"In the second century BCE the rural population still spoke either Hebrew or Aramaic, most merchants communicated in Greek, and the governing and intellectual elites in Jerusalem spoke and wrote mainly in Aramaic."
Sheldon,
ReplyDeleteIsn't modern Hebrew an invented language, as well? I remember Mises saying in Omnipotent Government(I think) that the ancient Hebrews spoke Aramaic and that only the clergy spoke Hebrew.
Here's what Shlomo Sand writes in The Invention of the Jewish People:
ReplyDelete"In the second century BCE the rural population still spoke either Hebrew or Aramaic, most merchants communicated in Greek, and the governing and intellectual elites in Jerusalem spoke and wrote mainly in Aramaic."