@harrypotter @reallyangry @tyler @GoyGirl @lord_nougat >you can say you don't like hillman, but you can't say he is wrong.
Actually, yes I can, having read the New Testament Greek and also having learned Hebrew - but that's beside the point.

Anyone claiming that Hebrew is some primitive monkey language or whatever simply doesn't know enough about it to have an informed opinion. You are neither philologist nor hebraist: you can't tell me the difference between an aleph and an ayin without looking it up, and nor would you understand what the matres lectiones were. Yet somehow you think surface level details someone else told you about, like "8000 words" and "no vowels," means you're able to make judgment calls on this sort of thing. It's pretty clear to me that you didn't do the legwork of investigating hillman's claims, you just believe him because you *want* him to be correct.
Get started here and do your homework kid: https://dailydoseofhebrew.com/hebrew-resources/

I'm not CI btw, I'm a Lutheran.