<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Interesting. I think this is a better question for a Hebrew scholar or a modern Hebrew speaker. While I’ve studied Hebrew in seminary, I don’t remember any distinction being made. Such a distinction was made in my Greek classes from the start. What is the distinction between ancient and modern Hebrew? What is the date boundary? Do modern Jews make a distinction between modern and ancient Hebrew?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hebrew as a language died about the 2nd century A.D. It was resurrected as a spoken language fairly recently. And as a written language before that.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For a website on ancient Hebrew, see: <a href="http://ancient-hebrew.org/alphabet_history.html" class="">http://ancient-hebrew.org/alphabet_history.html</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This site puts 1100AD as the boundary between Ancient and Modern Hebrew.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From my paltry learning of Hebrew, it appears that what we have is modern Hebrew not ancient.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">DM<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 9, 2016, at 5:01 AM, David Haslam <<a href="mailto:dfhmch@googlemail.com" class="">dfhmch@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Did you know that the ISO 639-3 language codes for Ancient (classical) and<br class="">Modern Hebrew are different?<br class=""><br class="">Ancient = hbo<br class="">Modern = heb<br class=""><br class="">Does that mean that some of our Biblical Hebrew modules have the wrong lang<br class="">code?<br class=""><br class="">Prompted by observing that Michael J uses hbo for his two Hebrew Bible<br class="">modules.<br class=""><br class="">David<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">View this message in context: <a href="http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Language-codes-for-Hebrew-tp4655473p4655665.html" class="">http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Language-codes-for-Hebrew-tp4655473p4655665.html</a><br class="">Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at <a href="http://nabble.com" class="">Nabble.com</a>.<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">sword-devel mailing list: <a href="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org" class="">sword-devel@crosswire.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel" class="">http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel</a><br class="">Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>