And yet the Bible records its pre-Babel conversations in Hebrew — there's nothing to indicate that Hebrew was spoken pre-Babel.
(IOW, that testimony could easily have been included as a Hebrew translation, if it were imperative to keep the scriptures Hebrew.)
A few aramaic words in other books because they have no parallel in Hebrew.
*nod* — Such it is with multiple-languages, if your language doesn't have a concept you borrow it from another.
I'm just really leery of the language matters most
/holy tongue
types (especially the name guys) as it comes off to me as magic-wordism
where concepts and understanding are discarded in favor of particular throat-and-mouth noises — Pentecost is an interesting counter-example to that mode of thought, IMO, as the foreigners heard the message in their own tongue, not that they were suddenly made able to understand Hebrew.
There is strong evidence that Hebrew was the original pre-babel language. Prophecy has the world “returning” to the use of Hebrew in the millennial reign; how can we ‘return’ to it unless it was the original language?
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Zephaniah 3:9
[9] For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
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