“The inscription of King Mar'alqais , found south of Damascus and dated at 328 CE, is usually said to be the first… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Damascus 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
“The coastlands of East Africa were colonized from South Arabia, leading to the development of Ethiopic dialects like Ge'ez (third to twelfth… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos East africa 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 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
“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 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
“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
“When the Greek translation of the Pentateuch was made, /Ģ/ was still a distinct phoneme, but when the remaining books were translated,… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Books 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
“Over a quarter of the words in the Bible appear just once, and of these no less than 289 belong to roots… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Bible Copy Share Image
“In the passage where Jacob and his descendants ... final break from Laban (Gn 31:47), various writers have seen an allusion to… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Various attempts have been made, with differing degrees of success, to reconstruct pre-exilic Hebrew, including its morphology.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew 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 Hebrew Copy Share Image
“H. Bauer ... was already arguing that some elements of Hebrew, such as the consecutive tenses, had a close relationship with Akkadian.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Close relationship 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 Proto-Semitic phonological system contains perhaps twenty-nine consonantal phonemes, which despite certain modifications have been conserved with great fidelity in languages like… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Although vowels are indicated in the cuneiform syllabaries, they are lacking from the alphabetic scripts of the Northwest and South.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“... before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The end of the third millennium saw the arrival in the east of Amorite ... who settled west of Euphrates ... and… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Writing Copy Share Image
“The most influential figure involved in clarifying the Babylonian pointing system was without doubt Paul Kahle, who in 1902 wrote a study… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Education Copy Share Image
“... before the first millennium BCE one cannot speak of a contrast between Canaanite and Aramaic, but rather a group of languages… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Hebrew Copy Share Image
