Quote by Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The original language of the descendants of Abraham was not Aramaic, which was changed to Hebrew when the tribes of Israel entered Canaan.”

— James John Courtenay

“The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the fourteenth to thirteenth centuries BCE, regardless of what their language might have been before they…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“... before the first millennium BCE one cannot speak of a contrast between Canaanite and Aramaic, but rather a group of languages with various…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“According to some scholars, after 1400 BCE ... Ya'udic and Aramaic separated from ... Canaanite group.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Hebrew ... belongs to the Canaanite group of languages ... this means that when the Israelite tribes settled in Canaan they adopted the language…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“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

“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“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…

— John Courtenay James

“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

“every day conversation. When this happens the meanings behind many words become lost and its original intent may never be positively identified. It is…

— Chaim Bentorah

“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

“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