How alike is Modern Hebrew (what you speak, I'd guess) compared to Ancient Hebrew, such as you'd learn at bible college? I'm trying to decide which would be more fun, Ancient Hebrew or Greek. :)

EDIT -
I guess what I'm trying to ask is if I started speaking Ancient Hebrew to you, would you understand me, or would it be somewhat like someone speaking Anglo-Saxon English to me?

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How alike is Modern Hebrew (what you speak, I'd guess) compared to Ancient Hebrew, such as you'd learn at bible college? I'm trying to decide which would be more fun, Ancient Hebrew or Greek. :)

EDIT -
I guess what I'm trying to ask is if I started speaking Ancient Hebrew to you, would you understand me, or would it be somewhat like someone speaking Anglo-Saxon English to me?
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I'm guessing it's called "ancient" Hebrew for a reason.

By my understanding of the language's history, it was used from around the time of the Exodus from Egypt by Moses until slightly before Jesus was born, and therefore all the mansucripts from the Old Testament were written in Ancient Hebrew. Then Hebrew ceased to exist, and the New Testament was written in Ancient Greek and Aramaic. Recently, as Israel became a nation again, Hebrew emerged again as Modern Hebrew. I don't know how much difference there is between the two languages, though.

The words themselves, I believe, are kind of similar (though some don't exist anymore, and some didn't exist yet).
The writing is extremely different (only researchers can read ancient Hebrew).
The grammar and punctuation laws are also very different.

Biblical Hebrew is a more modern (but not the most modern) form of Hebrew - it uses today's writing, but like I said, a vocabulary that contains words that don't exist anymore, different grammar, and no punctuation at all. That's the form used in a book of the old testament that you can buy in a store.

So basically, it's got a different alphabet, different grammar structure, and some weird words? And it looks kinda like this:

once upon a time me and my klsjksg wife went to see a movie it was a gkljlsg cool movie i really kjlsdg liked it

.......

Seriously, wtf Joe....

I'm pretty sure it would look more like JOEわとてもばかです。

Ιτ ισ τοο βαδ πεοπλε Ι νο νεβερ θινκ.

Nobody cares.  At least my post had ENGLISH in it.

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Nobody cares.  At least my post had ENGLISH in it.
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Mine's in English too. Even ask Rule.

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[quote author=rabbit link=topic=16013.msg161447#msg161447 date=1164024336]
Nobody cares.  At least my post had ENGLISH in it.
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Mine's in English too. Even ask Rule.
[/quote]No, yours is IN Greek jibberish.  All you did was take Greek letters and made them into an almost intelligible English sentence.