Quoting from memory this morning about Adam and Eve... Here's the passage I
was thinking about, from Benjamin's _Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels_,
dealing with theories of language in the 1500's:
"The theory that [German] was directly descended from Hebrew was
widespread, and it was not the most radical theory. There were others which
actually traced Hebrew, Greek, and Latin back to German. According to
Borinski, 'in Germany it was proved historically, from the Bible, that the
whole world, including classical antiquity, was originally German'"
(English trans., p.203).
Always makes me laugh.
Cheers,
Paul N. Murphy
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was thinking about, from Benjamin's _Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels_,
dealing with theories of language in the 1500's:
"The theory that [German] was directly descended from Hebrew was
widespread, and it was not the most radical theory. There were others which
actually traced Hebrew, Greek, and Latin back to German. According to
Borinski, 'in Germany it was proved historically, from the Bible, that the
whole world, including classical antiquity, was originally German'"
(English trans., p.203).
Always makes me laugh.
Cheers,
Paul N. Murphy
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