As early as the 9th century Judah ibn Kuraish discussed the relationship between Arabic and Hebrew.
[1] Solomon ibn Gabirol in the 11th century composed a versified Hebrew grammar, consisting of 400 verses divided into ten parts.
In the 12th century, Ibn Barun compared the Hebrew language with Arabic in the Islamic grammatical tradition.
Hieronymus Buclidius, a friend of Erasmus, gave more than 20,000 francs to establish a branch of Hebrew studies at Louvain in Flanders.
Through the influence of Johannes Buxtorf (d. 1629) a serious attempt was made to understand the post-Biblical literature, and many of the most important works were translated into Latin.
Significant syntactic changes have arisen in Modern Hebrew as a result of non-Semitic substrate influences.