"Is Modern Hebrew Totally Different from Biblical Hebrew?"
These days I see a lot of comments online about Modern Hebrew being a FAKE language, that it's NOT Hebrew, that it's a constructed language based on Arabic and Yiddish, and so on.
Of course there's often a political intention behind such statements. But there IS something different about Modern Hebrew: the fact that it's the result of a LANGUAGE REVIVAL.
Some people try to spin that to mean that Modern Hebrew is fake Hebrew, but it's clear to me that Modern Hebrew is MUCH more similar to Biblical Hebrew than other modern languages are to their ancient antecedents over a similar time frame.
This is in large part because of the revival. And the revival was possible because of extensive body of Hebrew literature that never stopped being produced.
Of course there are differences though.
In my new video that's premiering today, I dive in and look at the similarities and the differences.
The link to the premiere in the first comment.