“The general conclusion .. many terms and ideas, which at one time were regarded as exclusively Biblical, are found to belong to the common stock of Semitic and eastern language and conception.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“Jacob-el was a place-name in Palestine according to an inscription.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“the Nabataeans were real Arabs .. there is substantial agreement of Biblical Aramaic with Nabataean, both in words and construction.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“That offerings were made by individuals to local deities is proved by an Egyptian Aramaean inscription.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“Ancient Arabic may naturally be regarded as the chief source of the Hebrew language.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“The native language of Babylonia-Assyria did no doubt influence the language of Canaan, but chiefly through Phoenician script. The language found on Moabite Stone is practically identical with Old Testament Hebrew .. This fact supports the conclusion that the languages of the Phoenicians, Syrians, Moabites, Ammonites, Arabs and Babylonian-Assyrians, were almost identical in grammatical structures, and closely related in vocabulary… — John Courtenay James Copy Share
“The 'square' character (of the Hebrew language) indeed seems to have arisen out of the Palmyrene script .. No doubt Aramaic was written in… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“some differences between LXX and the MT. are more frequently to be attributed to defective writing, to ignorance on the part of the writers,… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“In general it must be concluded that the accentuation of the Palestinian Aramaic (derived from Aramaic of Babylonia) was the same as the Biblical… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“In the Egyptian papyri the 'Jews' are frequently called 'Aramaeans'.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“Relatively the Canaanites were a cultured and active people, as Egyptian and other literary remains prove. From them the Israelites probably gained some knowledge… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“It is found that Assyrian and Canaanite have certain terms in common, which are not found in other Semitic languages.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
“While it is to be admitted that the chief source of the Canaanite languages (including Hebrew) was early Arabic, other elements came into their… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
