“There is some evidence that the Canaanites lived together with the Babylonians for a longer period than did the Aramaeans ... It… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“In its classical form Arabic is of later date than Hebrew, but in its ancient form akin to Hebrew and Aramaic, certainly… — James John Courtenay 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 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 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
“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 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 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
“If the Jews were Hellenized, it must be remembered that the Greeks were Aramaized.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The scientific element failed the Hebrew author completely ... the grammar is confused and the syntax unique and irregular.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The relation of Moabite to Hebrew was so close that no distinction of language must be conjectured” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Judaean Aramaic is in no sense a mixture of Hebrew and Syriac.” — James John Courtenay 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 Copy Share Image
“The Hebrew tribes no doubt moved out of Arabia with some of the earlier migrations from the great Semitic reservoir.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Samaritan Targum ... maybe compared with the Aramaic of the Jerusalem Talmud and with the Palestinian Syriac. On the whole it was… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“In many cases the vowel-letters are omitted in Palmyrene where they are found in Hebrew.” — James John Courtenay 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 Copy Share Image
“The Hebrew inscriptions are practically all pre-exilic, and do not shed much light on the language of Palestine after the Captivity.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Zenjirli inscriptions supply far more suggestive criteria, and show how cautious we must be in coming to conclusions respecting the unity… — James John Courtenay 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 Copy Share Image
“In Hebrew and Aramaic the vowels have undergone vast modifications, whilst in Arabic they have retained to a large extent their primitive… — James John Courtenay 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
“Whether , therefore, Moabite, was a dialect of Hebrew, or Hebrew a dialect of Moabite, is no longer a problem to be… — James John Courtenay 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 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
“There was probably a larger admixture of Greek in Galilee than in any other Palestinian province.” — James John Courtenay 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 Copy Share Image
“There is some evidence that the Canaanites lived together with the Babylonians for a longer period than did the Aramaeans ... It is found… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“In its classical form Arabic is of later date than Hebrew, but in its ancient form akin to Hebrew and Aramaic, certainly as old,… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“It is doubtful whether the vernacular of Palestine admitted any Greek element prior to the Christian era. Even in the Greek form of the… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“When Aramaeans became Christians, their name was often confounded with 'heathen', hence they called their land by the Greek name 'Syria', themselves by the… — James John Courtenay 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 time or… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Mandaean ... letter-forms resemble the older Syriac ... Estrangelo character ... considerably coloured by Arabic ... likeness to Nabataean and the Babylonian Talmud.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Galilean Aramaic pronunciation of שׁ was שׂ, or rather ס as the Ephraimite or Samaritan.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“With the progress of the Greek arms cam the decline of the Greek language.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
