“Samaritan Targum ... maybe compared with the Aramaic of the Jerusalem Talmud and with the Palestinian Syriac. On the whole it was… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“There is some evidence that the Canaanites lived together with the Babylonians for a longer period than did the Aramaeans ... It… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Ammonite, a dialect akin to Hebrew and therefore similar to Moabite, which is an older form of Hebrew and one of the… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The work of the authors of the LXX was not only a translation, it was also a revised version. In all such… — James John Courtenay Books Copy Share Image
“If the Philistines were early associated with the Minoan civilization, and the Pulasti were an Aegean people, it is to be concluded… — James John Courtenay First contact Copy Share Image
“Babylonian, Assyrian, Chaldaean ... tribes ... emerge on the scene with one language ... must be characterized “It is most probable that… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The 'Canaanite' migration from Arabia preceded the 'Aramaean' migration, that Hebrew was in some sense included in the former, and that something… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Extra-canonical literature ... written in Aramaic have survived in another language, or in an Aramaic which is considerably removed from the original… — James John Courtenay Books Copy Share Image
“It is evident that at no period between the Exile and the Christian era was there one homogeneous language in Palestine. But… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Greek culture owed tremendous debt to the Aegean ... This civilization had grown old, and passed away centuries before the period of… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Semite has the power of transporting himself backward or forward ... thus he could realize the future as either present or… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“From Egyptian writing the Phoenicians constructed an alphabet which passed into world-literature ... Herodotus attributes the transliteration of Phoenician letters into the… — James John Courtenay History Copy Share Image
“All extra-Biblical writings, which must have been composed in the great days of the two kingdoms, have disappeared. It is to be… — James John Courtenay Great day Copy Share Image
“Other instances can hardly be regarded as natural developments of the Greek, or as accidental coincidence with Hebrew or Aramaic. They must… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The Palmyrene dialect was a modification of the early Hebrew, and its alphabet was among the first to diverge from the more… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“It is safe to say that the speech of Palestine at the end of the first century B.C. was sufficiently one throughout… — James John Courtenay Communication Copy Share Image
