11. The Forbidden Experiment - Part 4

from Science: A Peculiar History · host Joe Bath

James IV's language deprivation experiment supposedly had the result that the children in question spoke Hebrew. In an effort to explain why someone at the time might have found this plausible, this episode looks at several colourful Renaissance figures who studied the Hebrew language, and their ideas, some more sensible than others.

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