Hi, why not calling it hebrew ?

[Eli]

Hi,

Why not calling it hebrew ?

Im starting to think there is
a "political" reason for that ?

As i see from your books,
its very hard for you to
say that edenic=hebrew,
in a direct manner.
Why is that ?

Thanks.

[Phil Van Riper]

Why not call it Hebrew? Well, it IS Hebrew! If you read Prof. Mozeson's books it's rather obvious! But the point is it's not quite that simple. The point is that everyone...everywhere even after thousands of years uses words that are peculiarly related to...Hebrew.

It's easy to see how Hebrew language could have influenced neighboring languages. It's not so easy to see how Hebrew could have influenced distant peoples and languages. It's easy to show similarities between Hebrew and , say, Turkish or Arabic or Greek - it's far more interesting to find such similarities between Hebrew and, say, Mayan languages, Australian aboriginal languages, and Chinese!

It's rather difficult to imagine how Hebrew words could find their way into languages such as Hopi. But if you look closely - there they are.

If we look in <shudder> Bereishis (the Greek/English name for that is Genesis) we can read that G-d gave humanity the ability to think and speak. And we can read that all humans spoke that same language for a couple thousand years.

And then we can read about a rebellion that annoyed G-d so much that he mixed up/scrambled that language into many new languages.

We can even find what appears to be the beginnings of 'plate tectonics' right there in Bereshis/Genesis!

But I'm digressing!

If language was mixed up, scrambled at the 'Tower of Babel' - and not totally obliterated with nothing remaining - we may be able to pick through, to find remnants of the original words, the original language given to all of us.

Since we're told in Bereishis/Genesis that it was that original language that was mixed up at Babel - and we're told that it was given to humanity way back in the Garden - that's why we're calling it Edenic! It seems to be the most accurate way to refer to it! Later on, sure, we call it Hebrew. Later on, even in that same book called Bereinuts/Genesis, we read mostly about one specific group of people. But before things became so specialized, we were reading of things more universally.

I've probably botched this attempt at explaining why we're calling Ancient Hebrew...Edenic...and not simply Ancient Hebrew. You can always email Prof. Mozeson for a more logical intelligible...and probably shorter explanation.

Avraham Van Riper