“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
“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
“The earliest Hebrew texts that have reached us date from the end of the second millennium BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Judaism Copy Share Image
“The number of vowel phonemes varies according to the different Masoretic traditions.” — 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
“... Ugarit ... in contrast to later Canaanite languages, there is no article.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Canaanite Copy Share Image
“Palestino-Tiberian tradition ... Ashkenazi opted for it, although they also introduced significant modifications.” — 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 Archaic 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 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
“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 Time 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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 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 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 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 Day life 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
“It is noticeable that the Phoenician terms are often shared with Ugaritic.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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
“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
“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
“Analysis of Aleppo Codex ... represents the Ben-Asher tradition, having been vocalized by Aaron Ben-Asher himself.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Aleppo Codex Copy Share Image
“In Qumran, as in RH, final mem and nun are interchangeable.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Final 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 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
“Thus, 'Proto-Semitic' is more a postulate or linguistic convention than an actual ancient language spoken by a recognizable group.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
