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If you want to know more then do an Internet search.Woa, wait. The Hebrew language itself was changed by the Rabbis? Do you mean phonemes or meanings?
I assume phonemes, since we're talking about how to read the word יהושע.
If you mean phonemes were changed, then what evidence do you have proving this? A phonographic record of Hebrew spoken before the "change...by the Rabbis"? How could "the Rabbis" have changed the phonemes for the way Hebrew is spoken, for all Jews, around the world, at all times?
I am very curious. Especially considering the great success "the Rabbis" had in getting everyone to change the way they pronounce words. Or maybe not so great since I suppose the whole Ashkenaz vs Sephard vs Moroccan vs Algerian vs other Hebrew phonemes don't matter in this discussion? Which rabbis, and when, was this great tampering with the global use of Hebrew carried out? That must have been one massive re-education program.
Biblical Hebrew
The kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The Bar-Kochba revolt in 132–135 CE led to a large departure of the Jewish population of Judea. Biblical Hebrew ceased being spoken as a regular literary language around 200 CE; it latter developed and evolved into Mishnaic Hebrew by the 6 th century AD. Biblical Hebrew as preserved in the Hebrew Bible is composed of multiple linguistic layers. The consonantal skeleton of the text is the most ancient, while the vocalization and cantillation are later additions reflecting a later stage of the language. These additions were added after 600 CE; Hebrew had already ceased being used as a spoken language around 200 CE. Biblical Hebrew as reflected in the consonantal text of the Bible and in extra-Biblical inscriptions may be subdivided by era. Late Biblical Hebrew shows Aramaic influence in phonology, morphology, and lexicon, and this trend is also evident in the later-developed Tiberian vocalization system.
Qumran Hebrew, attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls from ca. 200 BCE to 70 CE, is a continuation of Late Biblical Hebrew. Qumran Hebrew may be considered an intermediate stage between Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew, though Qumran Hebrew shows its own idiosyncratic dialectal features
Note: Second century BC Aramaic was still in use in the first century AD according to carbon dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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