[Avodah] RAMBAM on Songs and Using Hebrew

[Prof. Levine]

At 04:05 PM 3/18/2011, Micha Berger wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:00:38AM -0700, Gershon Seif wrote:
>: How would the Rambam explain how they communicated with one another
>: in biblical times? Did they only speak Lashon HaKoesh for refined
>: purposes? How did they conduct business? In some other language? I
>: doubt it.
>
>Well, the language of Avraham's homeland was Aramit. And there is such
>a concept in Chazal that we always had Aramaic as a second language.
>Perhaps this was one of the medrashim the Rambam didn't consider too
>fantastical to take literally?
>
>:-)BBii!
>-Micha

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language  Aramaic 
has been around for 3000 years.


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