“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“It is noticeable that the Phoenician terms are often shared with Ugaritic.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The Babylonian system of accents is similar to the Tiberian, with small variations.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“According to some scholars, after 1400 BCE ... Ya'udic and Aramaic separated from ... Canaanite group.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The number of vowel phonemes varies according to the different Masoretic traditions.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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
“Some of the more outstanding features of Ugaritic are its preservation of most of the Proto-Semitic consonantal phonemes.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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 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
“Various attempts have been made, with differing degrees of success, to reconstruct pre-exilic Hebrew, including its morphology.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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
“... before the first millennium BCE one cannot speak of a contrast between Canaanite and Aramaic, but rather a group of languages… — 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 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
“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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
“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 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
“Amorite ... it is the oldest Northwest Semitic language yet discovered.” — 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 Copy Share Image
“The earliest inscriptions in Hebrew date from the tenth BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The oldest Phoenician inscriptions date from around 1100 BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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 Copy Share Image
“Palestino-Tiberian tradition ... Ashkenazi opted for it, although they also introduced significant modifications.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Archaic Hebrew ... no general agreement among scholars regarding this term.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 by the… — 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 the influence… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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 be understood… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The number of vowel phonemes varies according to the different Masoretic traditions.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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 used only… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.” — 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 script (c.… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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, it developed… — 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 these items… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“... Ugarit ... in contrast to later Canaanite languages, there is no article.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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 tradition and… — 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 was actually… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
