This is an old thread but something I read while investigating Roger Bacon in terms of hermetic belief struck me as possibly - remotely - pertinent. Please note that I am not a linguist! I mention this only because it seems like some of the objections to this professor's Hebrew theory might be resolved by an investigation into Bacon's somewhat vexed Hebrew grammar, if subsequent writers were to base their own "Hebrew" on it.
I couldn't understand most of what the article writers were referring to, but it turns out that Bacon's scribe wrote his Hebrew from left to right, and Bacon never got around to correcting it. Moreover, in reference to the one comment above re written vs spoken Hebrew, it seems Bacon relied on some oral sources - mostly Ashkenazi - for pronunciation schemes, but a lot on written Romanian Hebrew or Sephardic.
Bacon also wrote a Greek grammar more successfully. What I found interesting about this is how he would transliterate: the scholastic mnemonic method, and Bacon's intermediate word for word translations first before the complete translation.
I am interested myself in the images, and following up on my hypothesis we are dealing with someone who had read Bacon, Rupescissa, the Picatrix and other hermetic-based writing.
Therefore, it occurred to me while doing so that a linguist might find a fruitful field in Bacon's translation work to compare to the VMS patterns. Just a thought.
I couldn't understand most of what the article writers were referring to, but it turns out that Bacon's scribe wrote his Hebrew from left to right, and Bacon never got around to correcting it. Moreover, in reference to the one comment above re written vs spoken Hebrew, it seems Bacon relied on some oral sources - mostly Ashkenazi - for pronunciation schemes, but a lot on written Romanian Hebrew or Sephardic.
Bacon also wrote a Greek grammar more successfully. What I found interesting about this is how he would transliterate: the scholastic mnemonic method, and Bacon's intermediate word for word translations first before the complete translation.
I am interested myself in the images, and following up on my hypothesis we are dealing with someone who had read Bacon, Rupescissa, the Picatrix and other hermetic-based writing.
Therefore, it occurred to me while doing so that a linguist might find a fruitful field in Bacon's translation work to compare to the VMS patterns. Just a thought.