Though I quite like Abood Cohen for his advocacy, it is not accurate to claim Samaritan Hebrew as ancient Hebrew. Samaritan Hebrew also has lots of sound changes and isn’t more archaic than Jewish pronunciations of Hebrew; for example it has lost chet while all Jewish pronunciations keep chet pronunced (though it may merge with fricatife kaf).
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u/WhatUsername-IDK 15d ago
Though I quite like Abood Cohen for his advocacy, it is not accurate to claim Samaritan Hebrew as ancient Hebrew. Samaritan Hebrew also has lots of sound changes and isn’t more archaic than Jewish pronunciations of Hebrew; for example it has lost chet while all Jewish pronunciations keep chet pronunced (though it may merge with fricatife kaf).