SV: SV: UNiversity and Church

Martin Delhey mdelhey at YAHOO.COM
Sat Mar 17 13:22:08 UTC 2001


> Lars Martin Fosse wrote:
 So together, we have
> hopefully killed the idea that Hebrew is regarded as the world's first
> language by Christians.
>

But it should be noted that this view indeed existed in Christian Europe. It
seems have to be discarded by the 19th century. Refer e.g. to the
Encyclopedia Britannica. (Section on "Historical Attitudes toward
language").

Regards,
Martin Delhey



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