Modern Hebrew (and its speakers) is not the same as or descendent from Ancient (Biblical) Hebrew (or its

speakers). Ancient Hebrew was a Semitic language, akin to Aramaic, Arabic, and Akkadian. It was a dead (i.e. unspoken) language by the third century CE, and from then until the nineteenth century no Jewish child learned Hebrew at birth. Modern Hebrew, on the other hand, according to Israeli linguist Paul Wexler (Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University) was invented as a spoken language in the 1880s by a small group of Yiddish speakers from Ottoman Palestine. It is what he calls a Schizoid language: it embodies the syntax and phonology (sound system) of the Yiddish of its 19th century inventers, but with the Yiddish lexicon (i.e. vocabulary) artificially replaced by the Biblical and Mishnaic lexicon in order to connect it back to Ancient Hebrew and thus connect modern Jews back to the ancient Hebrews. A study of modern Jewish languages therefore proves to be as valuable as genetics in ascertaining the origins of modern Jews. Prof Wexler notes: The evidence provided by the Jewish languages strongly suggests that there is little basis for claims that contemporary Jews of Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as their religious practices and folklores, are evolved forms of the Palestinian Jews and their culture two millennia ago. On the contrary, the contemporary Jews, like their religions and folk cultures, appear to be overwhelmingly of non-Jewish originHence, contemporary Judaism is best defined not as the continuation of the Judaism which served as antecedents of Christianity and Islam, but as a newly Judaized variant of European (mainly Slavic) paganism and Christianity; similarly, Modern Hebrew must be defined as a dialect of Slavic, and not as a direct descendent of Old Hebrew. Conversely, most of the features of Old Palestinian Judaism and Semitic Hebrew to be found in Ashkenazi Judaism and Medieval Ashkenazic/Modern Israeli Hebrew were latter borrowings rather than original inheritanceit is (thus) incorrect to view the contemporary Jews as descendants of the ancient Palestinian Jews

The schizoid nature of Modern Hebrew and its value for identifying ethnic origins is nicely illustrated by the Hebrew alphabet. Modern Hebrew uses the Aramaic alphabet (the Square Hebrew leters) that replaced the Old Hebrew alphabet before the Common Era. This Aramaic alphabet is Semitic. However, the NAMES of the Hebrew letters are not. English linguist, poet and cultural historian Robert Graves, in his work The White Goddess (1948.1961), pointed out that the names of the Hebrew letters are cognate with Greek and Irish letter-names. Further, he documented that the Hebrew letter-names correspond to the names of Indo-European trees, all of which grew (together) only in the Caucasus region between the Black and the Caspian Seas. This points to the Caucasus region as the origin of an important segment of modern Jewry. #exposingsatan #showdown #therealantisemite Paul Wexler, The Ashkenazi Jews: A Slavo-Turkic People in Search of a Jewish Identity (Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, Inc.,1993) Idem. The Slavonic Standard of Modern Hebrew, The Slavonic and East European Review 73 (1995) 201-225 Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth ((Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997 [1948]). Michael Bradley, Chosen People from the Caucasus (Chicago: Third World Press, 1992)