“The earliest inscriptions in Hebrew date from the tenth BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The name Hamito-Semitic, derived from the Bible, is deliberately vague.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Bible Copy Share Image
“Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Biblical Copy Share Image
“Archaic Hebrew ... no general agreement among scholars regarding this term.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Palestino-Tiberian tradition ... Ashkenazi opted for it, although they also introduced significant modifications.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The oldest Phoenician inscriptions date from around 1100 BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Analysis of Aleppo Codex ... represents the Ben-Asher tradition, having been vocalized by Aaron Ben-Asher himself.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Expressions used almost exclusively in poetry ... tend to be concentrated in the oldest biblical texts. Generally, it may be said that… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Bible Copy Share Image
“The Tiberian system became more and more dominant until it completely ousted its Palestino-Tiberian counterpart around the middle of the fourteenth century.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The coastlands of East Africa were colonized from South Arabia, leading to the development of Ethiopic dialects like Ge'ez (third to twelfth… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos East africa Copy Share Image
“There have been various attempts to reconstruct the vocalization and pronunciation of classical biblical Hebrew, which certainly differs considerably from that established… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The 379 letters from Tell el-Amarna ... are cuneiform tablets ... date from around 1385-1355 BCE ... include Canaanite glosses ... from… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The exile marks the disappearance of this language (i.e., Biblical Hebrew) from everyday life and its subsequent use for literary and liturgical… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Phoenician writing is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite system, and from these developed the Palaeo-Hebrew script (c. 800 BCE) and the Aramaic… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Judaism Copy Share Image
“In addition to recording the actual changes in language ... the Masoretic pointing system also reflects the linguistic views of the Masoretes… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Change Copy Share Image
“The Proto-Canaanite ... seems to have employed 27 different characters. The Ugaritic alphabet from around the 14th century BCE uses 30 characters… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“During its peak in the eighth to ninth centuries, the Babylonian version of Hebrew extended from Persia to Yemen. It declined in… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the fourteenth to thirteenth centuries BCE, regardless of what their language might have been… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“According to J. Naveh, the Semitic alphabets originated with Proto-Canaanite (eighteenth to seventeenth centuries BCE), from which there was derived around 1300… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Hebrew ... belongs to the Canaanite group of languages ... this means that when the Israelite tribes settled in Canaan they adopted… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“In morphology, the (synchronic) study of the compatibility of consonants within Semitic triconsonantal root ... has been conducted with great precision in… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Education Copy Share Image
“There are difficulties involved in regarding the Babylonian tradition as a single or homogeneous phenomenon following just one line of development. If,… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Masoretic ... was the system devised by the Masoretic family of Ben-Asher ... The most important editions of the Hebrew Bible, from… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew bible Copy Share Image
“Phonologically, the langauge of Qumran represents a period of transition and fluctuation, during which, as is true of other texts from this… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Codex Leningradensis B 19a, used by R. Kittel and P.E. Kahle as the basis for the third edition of Biblia Hebraica and… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Second hand Copy Share Image
“The variation of place and time is also a problem, as we cannot simply accept that Biblical Hebrew, which had already ceased… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“According to Paul Kahle's well-known thesis, the Masoretic, especially the Tiberian, system of punctuation is not simply a representation of how Hebrew… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“In Qumran, as in RH, final mem and nun are interchangeable.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“... Ugarit ... in contrast to later Canaanite languages, there is no article.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Amorite ... it is the oldest Northwest Semitic language yet discovered.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“According to some scholars, after 1400 BCE ... Ya'udic and Aramaic separated from ... Canaanite group.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The Babylonian system of accents is similar to the Tiberian, with small variations.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The earliest Hebrew texts that have reached us date from the end of the second millennium BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The number of vowel phonemes varies according to the different Masoretic traditions.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“It is noticeable that the Phoenician terms are often shared with Ugaritic.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
