“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Judaism 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
“Hebrew ... belongs to the Canaanite group of languages ... this means that when the Israelite tribes settled in Canaan they adopted… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Judaism 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
“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
“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 ... no general agreement among scholars regarding this term.” — 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
“It is noticeable that the Phoenician terms are often shared with Ugaritic.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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 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
“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
“In Qumran, as in RH, final mem and nun are interchangeable.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Amorite ... it is the oldest Northwest Semitic language yet discovered.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Language 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
“Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.” — 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 Bible Copy Share Image
“The Babylonian system of accents is similar to the Tiberian, with small variations.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The Pharisees deliberately avoided the Late form of Biblical Hebrew (LBH), which is the language of the Bible written after the exile,… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Bible Copy Share Image
“The oldest Phoenician inscriptions date from around 1100 BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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 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 Judaism 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 Judaism 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 Judaism 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 Change Copy Share Image
