“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
“All extra-Biblical writings, which must have been composed in the great days of the two kingdoms, have disappeared. It is to be… — James John Courtenay Great day Copy Share Image
“Aramaic did not come into Palestine until after the Babylonian-Assyrian conquest of the country.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Phoenician extends from the v cent B.C. to i cent. B.C ... The Aramaic extends from the viii cent. B.C. to… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Palmyrene dialect was a modification of the early Hebrew, and its alphabet was among the first to diverge from the more… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“Nabataean (i.e., Syro-Arabian) people had a dialect differing somewhat from both Syriac and Arabic. Remains of this language are found in inscriptions… — James John Courtenay 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 Judaism 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 Copy Share Image
“If the Jews were Hellenized, it must be remembered that the Greeks were Aramaized.” — James John Courtenay Judaism 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 Bible 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Babylonian, Assyrian, Chaldaean ... tribes ... emerge on the scene with one language ... must be characterized “It is most probable that… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Laban spoke the language which came with that great Semitic migration from Arabia.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Aramaic spoken in 500 B.C. from Babylon in the north to Assuan in the south of Egypt was identical with what has… — James John Courtenay 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 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
“Greek culture owed tremendous debt to the Aegean ... This civilization had grown old, and passed away centuries before the period of… — 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
“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
“It is most probable that the Israelitish period in Egypt came within the Hyksos Dynasty.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Judaean Aramaic is in no sense a mixture of Hebrew and Syriac.” — James John Courtenay Judaism 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 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 Copy Share Image
