I'm not disagreeing. He turned hebrew into a pigeon language similar to english. But we DO have many manuscripts in hebrew, and jewish oral tradition itself means that people never officially stopped "speaking" it. It just fell heavily out of favor. Similar to latin today. The latin we speak now sounds very little like how the romans spoke it.
That is a fair assessment, and my title was a bit click-baity.
But I don't think Latin would be an apt analogy; even though it was mostly dead in the lingual sense after the fall of the Roman Empire, it developed and merged with all of the living Romance languages, and was used as Lingua Franca by the pretentious elite.
I feel like Modern Hebrew is more like if I took Beowulf, the first known epic poem written in English, and tried use that text to invent modern English.
I'd be calling you a 'Þær æt hyðe stod hringedstefna' instead of a faggot
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