“The likeness of Palmyrene to Biblical Aramaic are quite pronounced, and show that the two forms are essentially one.” — James John Courtenay 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
“If the Philistines were early associated with the Minoan civilization, and the Pulasti were an Aegean people, it is to be concluded… — James John Courtenay First contact Copy Share Image
“Assyrian more than Hebrew preserved the simplicity of the vowels, but in the matter of consonants was more akin to Phoenician and… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“When out of their native province, the Galilaeans sometimes so blended or divided words as to render them unintelligible.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The 'Canaanite' migration from Arabia preceded the 'Aramaean' migration, that Hebrew was in some sense included in the former, and that something… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Hebrew tribes no doubt moved out of Arabia with some of the earlier migrations from the great Semitic reservoir.” — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“It is found that the Egyptian language has an appreciable admixture of Semitic, which was derived ultimately from Arabia.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Samaritan Targum ... maybe compared with the Aramaic of the Jerusalem Talmud and with the Palestinian Syriac. On the whole it was… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“In many cases the vowel-letters are omitted in Palmyrene where they are found in Hebrew.” — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“Syriac ... was not a prominent element in the language of Palestine in pre-Christian times.” — James John Courtenay Time Copy Share Image
“Other instances can hardly be regarded as natural developments of the Greek, or as accidental coincidence with Hebrew or Aramaic. They must… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“The Judaean dialect - This form of Palestinian Aramaic was akin to Nabataean and Palmyrene ... In its earliest form the language… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Hebrew inscriptions are practically all pre-exilic, and do not shed much light on the language of Palestine after the Captivity.” — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“The Zenjirli inscriptions supply far more suggestive criteria, and show how cautious we must be in coming to conclusions respecting the unity… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“Palmyrene maybe regarded as an alphabetic link between the Samaritan and the Jewish or Aramaic square character. Many Palmyrene words resemble Hebrew,… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“In Hebrew and Aramaic the vowels have undergone vast modifications, whilst in Arabic they have retained to a large extent their primitive… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“Ammonite, a dialect akin to Hebrew and therefore similar to Moabite, which is an older form of Hebrew and one of the… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“For the understanding of primitive Semitic vowel-sounds a study of Arabic is almost indispensable.” — James John Courtenay Education Copy Share Image
“It is safe to say that the speech of Palestine at the end of the first century B.C. was sufficiently one throughout… — James John Courtenay Communication Copy Share Image
“On the Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions before the vi cent. B.C., no Persian word has been found, except the deific title Mithra.… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Extra-canonical literature ... written in Aramaic have survived in another language, or in an Aramaic which is considerably removed from the original… — James John Courtenay Books Copy Share Image
