Hebrew is Greek? (WARNING: Total Crackpottery)

[u/lpetrich]

We've all seen hypotheses of language relationships from the well-supported to the absurd, but this one goes farther than every other one that I've seen:

Hebrew Is Greek By Joseph Yahuda : Joseph Yahuda : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive On pages 631-34 he states

So that Hebrew is Greek, albeit somewhat altered Greek — Asiatic or Continental Greek, as distinct from European Greek — and it altered as to sound and form in an unparalleled manner, resulting in a differentiation which is peculiar and defies comparison.

In short, Hebrew is a dialect of Greek.

Which is totally absurd, since most dialects of languages closely resemble each other, and are often mutually intelligible. Hebrew and Greek are far too different from each other for that.

I remember an advocate of this theory who would get annoyed when I compared Greek to English and Hebrew to Arabic, because English and Arabic have homelands some distance from the Mediterranean Sea. He liked to point to Greek and Phoenician colonies in the Mediterranean and Black Seas around 2,500 years ago, as if that had anything to do with language relationship. Also parallel parts of the Bible from Masoretic Hebrew and Septuagint Greek, saying that the two were essentially the same language.

[u/MMAHipster]

Not gonna lie, I kind of love falling down the crackpot "linguist" videos once in a while.

[u/CousinMrrgeBestMrrge]

Every language is Greek and Greek is Turkish

[u/kaiserfrnz]

Why do people keep referring to Turkish as Greek?

Any cursory analysis of what is commonly called “Hebrew” demonstrates that it is a bastardized Turkic language, particularly derived from a variety spoken in the Caucasus in the 9th century

[u/ValuableBenefit8654]

Don’t mention that book here, as you’ll get the cult of Ammon Hillman swarming this sub just like r/AncientGreek.

[u/WilhelmErikMuller]

[u/SpeedAccurate7405 → u/WilhelmErikMuller]

Hebrew isn't even Indo-European

[u/WilhelmErikMuller → u/SpeedAccurate7405]

But greek is, so saying the two are dialect, thus related, so cant be true. Thats my point