Abstract
The issue of language in the Bible arises in numerous works, but these are essentially concerned with the origin of language and the myth of Babel. However, the biblical material is relatively thin : foreign (viz., non Hebraic) languages are especially mentioned in connection with other nations, allies or enemies, and the existence of dialectal variants is mentioned explicitly only once. In rabbinical texts, which elaborate on the background of multilingualism (Hebrew – Aramaic – Greek), foreign languages are approached within the framework of legal discussions, and narratives and interpretations concerning the primitive language and the language of Revelation. As for the Jewish grammarians of 10th-11th centuries, they aim at describing the language of the Bible and at allowing exegesis as exact as possible : they refer in the Aramaic and in the Arabic to the needs of exegesis.
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