“The inscription of King Mar'alqais , found south of Damascus and dated at 328 CE, is usually said to be the first… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Damascus Copy Share Image
“Some of the more outstanding features of Ugaritic are its preservation of most of the Proto-Semitic consonantal phonemes.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“There is general agreement that the differences between the Palestinian and Tiberian traditions are so great that they may even reflect separate… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Dialects Copy Share Image
“the preterite function of the Proto-Semitic prefix-conjugation has been preserved in BH's 'consecutive' (or 'conversive') tenses, the origins and significance of which… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The prevailing hypothesis continues to be that the Palestinian tradition is earlier than the Tiberian, although, under the influence of the latter,… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“According to Bauer, the oldest form of the Semitic verb is the imperfect, which does not indicate 'subjective' or 'objective' time but… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Sumerian substratum is obvious not only in the use of a cuneiform system of writing, but also in the weakness of Laryngeal… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Writing Copy Share Image
“Palmyrene and Nabataean dialects, which use an Aramaic script ... in the opinion of some experts might really be dialects of Arabic.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“When the Greek translation of the Pentateuch was made, /Ģ/ was still a distinct phoneme, but when the remaining books were translated,… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Books Copy Share Image
“The various systems of accentuation and vocalization introduced into the text of the Bible by the Masoretes had started to develop by… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Bible Copy Share Image
“The nature of the data we possess suggests we value each and every tradition rather than creating a dichotomy between the normative… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Culture Copy Share Image
“The most influential figure involved in clarifying the Babylonian pointing system was without doubt Paul Kahle, who in 1902 wrote a study… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Education Copy Share Image
“... before the first millennium BCE one cannot speak of a contrast between Canaanite and Aramaic, but rather a group of languages… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The Pharisees deliberately avoided the Late form of Biblical Hebrew (LBH), which is the language of the Bible written after the exile,… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Bible Copy Share Image
“The Proto-Semitic phonological system contains perhaps twenty-nine consonantal phonemes, which despite certain modifications have been conserved with great fidelity in languages like… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Although vowels are indicated in the cuneiform syllabaries, they are lacking from the alphabetic scripts of the Northwest and South.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“... before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The end of the third millennium saw the arrival in the east of Amorite ... who settled west of Euphrates ... and… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Writing Copy Share Image
“Thus, 'Proto-Semitic' is more a postulate or linguistic convention than an actual ancient language spoken by a recognizable group.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“H. Bauer ... was already arguing that some elements of Hebrew, such as the consecutive tenses, had a close relationship with Akkadian.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Close relationship Copy Share Image
“Over a quarter of the words in the Bible appear just once, and of these no less than 289 belong to roots… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Bible Copy Share Image
“In the passage where Jacob and his descendants ... final break from Laban (Gn 31:47), various writers have seen an allusion to… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Various attempts have been made, with differing degrees of success, to reconstruct pre-exilic Hebrew, including its morphology.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
