“The descendants of Joktan dwelt from Mesha to Sephar.” — James John Courtenay Descendants Copy Share Image
“If the Jews were Hellenized, it must be remembered that the Greeks were Aramaized.” — James John Courtenay Greeks Copy Share Image
“Judaean Aramaic is in no sense a mixture of Hebrew and Syriac.” — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“It is most probable that the Israelitish period in Egypt came within the Hyksos Dynasty.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Laban spoke the language which came with that great Semitic migration from Arabia.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“With the progress of the Greek arms cam the decline of the Greek language.” — James John Courtenay Greek Copy Share Image
“The whole traditional civil and moral cult of the Judaism, was inspired and elaborated during the Exile on the model of Babylonian… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“It has been shown that some institutions, at one time regarded as distinctly 'Jewish', are really Babylonian.” — James John Courtenay Time 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… — James John Courtenay Bible Copy Share Image
“... as in the case of the old Parthian kings, who took Iranian names and governed in the Iranian language, but who… — James John Courtenay Israel Copy Share Image
“Aramaic did not come into Palestine until after the Babylonian-Assyrian conquest of the country.” — 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The Hebrews were perhaps a secondary offshoot of the 'Canaanite' migration, just as the Abyssinians were a secondary offshoot of the Arabian-Sabaeans.” — 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 Arabic Copy Share Image
“The contributory elements to the united Arab nationality were possibly the early Ishmaelites, Midianites, Amalekites and other kindred clans ... All constituent… — James John Courtenay Member Semitic Copy Share Image
“There is some evidence that the Canaanites lived together with the Babylonians for a longer period than did the Aramaeans ... It… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“Antioch was largely a Greek city, but Greek was not the language of Syria. It is quite unwarrantable to argue from the… — James John Courtenay Greek Language 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… — James John Courtenay Jesus Nazareth Copy Share Image
“The translators of the LXX did not attempt to find a Greek word to correspond in sense with every Hebrew word or… — James John Courtenay Translators Copy Share Image
“The Palestinian Aramaic in general is not to be distinguished from the Aramaic portions of Daniel, Ezra and the Targums in their… — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The difficulties besetting the translators of the LXX were very great. It was almost impossible to reproduce the native inimitableness of a… — James John Courtenay Semitic 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 Arabic 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 Arabic 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 Judaism Copy Share Image
“A comparative study will lead to the conclusion that the Phoenician, Aramaic and Greek alphabets were developed from one original.” — James John Courtenay Education Copy Share Image
“The Galilean Aramaic pronunciation of שׁ was שׂ, or rather ס as the Ephraimite or Samaritan.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The Cyprus inscription "Ba'al Lebanon" dates from the viii cent. B.C. and is the oldest specimen of Phoenician writing down.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The Bible of Jesus of Nazareth, for instance, was Semitic, the earliest utterances and traditions of the Gospel were Semitic.” — James John Courtenay Bible Copy Share Image
“For the character of Aramaic between the Exile and the Christian era we are indebted more to inscriptions than other writings.” — James John Courtenay Aramaic Copy Share Image
“There was probably a larger admixture of Greek in Galilee than in any other Palestinian province.” — James John Courtenay Galilee Copy Share Image
“The likeness of Palmyrene to Biblical Aramaic are quite pronounced, and show that the two forms are essentially one.” — James John Courtenay Hebrew Copy Share Image
“The absence of the article and the use of the status emphaticus are signs of the suppression of Phoenician and the advancement… — 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 Judaism 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 Arabic 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 Archaic Copy Share Image
“The work of the authors of the LXX was not only a translation, it was also a revised version. In all such… — James John Courtenay Books Copy Share Image
“The scientific element failed the Hebrew author completely ... the grammar is confused and the syntax unique and irregular.” — James John Courtenay Books Copy Share Image
“The differences in the physical and mental states of mankind are to be regarded rather as differences of development than of origin.” — James John Courtenay Growth Copy Share Image
