“It is impossible to make a clear distinction between Babylonia and Assyria.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“... at no period did Greek become the language of Palestine.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“All the great Semitic migrations had their starting-place in Arabia.” — James John Courtenay Arabia Copy Share Image
“Aramaic was spoken in certain regions of upper Egypt in the fifth century B.C.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“If the Jews were Hellenized, it must be remembered that the Greeks were Aramaized.” — James John Courtenay Greeks Copy Share Image
“The whole traditional civil and moral cult of the Judaism, was inspired and elaborated during the Exile on the model of Babylonian… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Syriac ... was not a prominent element in the language of Palestine in pre-Christian times.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The inhabitants of Samaria seem to have perpetuated a form of Chaldee, hence their dialect had some likenesses to Babylonian Aramaic.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“It has been shown that some institutions, at one time regarded as distinctly 'Jewish', are really Babylonian.” — James John Courtenay Time Copy Share Image
“The books of the Old Testament, as we know them, do not represent the language of Palestine as spoken at any one… — James John Courtenay Bible Copy Share Image
“Aramaic did not come into Palestine until after the Babylonian-Assyrian conquest of the country.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“But where Moabite differed from Hebrew the difference pointed to Phoenician on the one side and to Arabic on the other, rather… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The Samaritans were conservative in the matter of script, preserving the Phoenician type after Judaea and Galilee had accepted the Aramaic character.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“In any Semitic study, Arabic is a most useful adjunct, inasmuch as it often indicates the true significance of words where the… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“On the Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions before the vi cent. B.C., no Persian word has been found, except the deific title Mithra.… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The contributory elements to the united Arab nationality were possibly the early Ishmaelites, Midianites, Amalekites and other kindred clans ... All constituent… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Judaean dialect - This form of Palestinian Aramaic was akin to Nabataean and Palmyrene ... In its earliest form the language… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“We have been accustomed to look to the East -to Mesopotamia and Babylonia- for the beginning of Greek enlightenment, but probably when… — James John Courtenay Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Palmyrene maybe regarded as an alphabetic link between the Samaritan and the Jewish or Aramaic square character. Many Palmyrene words resemble Hebrew,… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Assyrian more than Hebrew preserved the simplicity of the vowels, but in the matter of consonants was more akin to Phoenician and… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Whether , therefore, Moabite, was a dialect of Hebrew, or Hebrew a dialect of Moabite, is no longer a problem to be… — James John Courtenay Dialect Copy Share Image
“The use of 'ל' with imperfect ... the earliest occurrence of this construction found in Aramaean ... 'ל' has clearly a jussive… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The post-Biblical literature contains many Greek loan-words. On the Hasmonaean coins, Greek is found along with Hebrew legends, while on the Herodian… — James John Courtenay Books Copy Share Image
“vav conversive with the imperfect ... is found in Moabite ... show how closely this dialect was related to Hebrew ... vav… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Judaean Aramaic is in no sense a mixture of Hebrew and Syriac.” — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“All Semitic languages are perhaps ultimately traceable to Arabia.” — James John Courtenay Arabia Copy Share Image
“The likeness of Ethiopic to Arabic suggests an original tribal affinity.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Rabbinic pronunciation of ת sometimes approaches the ס sound.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Laban spoke the language which came with that great Semitic migration from Arabia.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“With the progress of the Greek arms cam the decline of the Greek language.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Hebrews were perhaps a secondary offshoot of the 'Canaanite' migration, just as the Abyssinians were a secondary offshoot of the Arabian-Sabaeans.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“It is certain that 'Phoenician' became the type of all subsequent script in western Asia and Europe.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Galilaean must not be regarded as a later and more degenerate form of Judaean, any more than Aramaic itself must be regarded… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“The Arabic language has had a great history, and in many respects is more remarkable than any other Semitic speech.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“In its ruggedness Hebrew seems an older language than Arabic, but some Arabic forms are certainly older than the corresponding Hebrew.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
