“The name Hamito-Semitic, derived from the Bible, is deliberately vague.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Bible 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 Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Archaic Hebrew ... no general agreement among scholars regarding this term.” — 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 Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The oldest Phoenician inscriptions date from around 1100 BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“In Qumran, as in RH, final mem and nun are interchangeable.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Final Copy Share Image
“... Ugarit ... in contrast to later Canaanite languages, there is no article.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Canaanite 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
“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 379 letters from Tell el-Amarna ... are cuneiform tablets ... date from around 1385-1355 BCE ... include Canaanite glosses ... from… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Mother tongue 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
“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
“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
“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew 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 Dialects Copy Share Image
“The Proto-Canaanite ... seems to have employed 27 different characters. The Ugaritic alphabet from around the 14th century BCE uses 30 characters… — 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew Copy Share Image
“According to J. Naveh, the Semitic alphabets originated with Proto-Canaanite (eighteenth to seventeenth centuries BCE), from which there was derived around 1300… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Arabic Script Copy Share Image
“Masoretic ... was the system devised by the Masoretic family of Ben-Asher ... The most important editions of the Hebrew Bible, from… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew bible 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
“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 Hebrew 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 Life 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
“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
“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The number of vowel phonemes varies according to the different Masoretic traditions.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The earliest Hebrew texts that have reached us date from the end of the second millennium BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Earliest 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
“It is noticeable that the Phoenician terms are often shared with Ugaritic.” — 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 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 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
“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 Hebrew 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
“Palmyrene and Nabataean dialects, which use an Aramaic script ... in the opinion of some experts might really be dialects of Arabic.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
