Until the Middle Ages there was no grammatical analysis which made clear the conditions under which Hebrew consonants might seem to disappear, to intrude, or to occur in peculiar positions
The main issue with Biblical Hebrew is that the manuscript Masoretic Text and even the manuscripts from Qumran are not direct reflections of a vernacular language
Aramaic remains Hebrew’s ugly sister, to be used and abused
Ein Semester habe ich Arabisch bei ihm getrieben, wo er rascher vorwärts gehen konnte, weil er das Hebräische der Schule voraussetzte
it would be mistaken to attribute too much importance to distributional rules
Were so many errors to be present in the transliteration of someone whose command of Hebrew is not, unlike Levine’s, beyond possible suspicion, the errors would cast doubt on that command
Wie traurig, dass Goethe nicht so gut hebräisch gewusst hat, wie ich