“Aramaic was spoken in certain regions of upper Egypt in the fifth century B.C.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“It is evident that at no period between the Exile and the Christian era was there one homogeneous language in Palestine. But… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Whether , therefore, Moabite, was a dialect of Hebrew, or Hebrew a dialect of Moabite, is no longer a problem to be… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“It is certain that 'Phoenician' became the type of all subsequent script in western Asia and Europe.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The picture-writing of the Greeks in the pre-Homeric age was derived from a Semitic source, circa second millennium B.C., the type of… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Semite has the power of transporting himself backward or forward ... thus he could realize the future as either present or… — James John Courtenay Time Copy Share Image
“All Semitic languages are perhaps ultimately traceable to Arabia.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“vav conversive with the imperfect ... is found in Moabite ... show how closely this dialect was related to Hebrew ... vav… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“We have been accustomed to look to the East -to Mesopotamia and Babylonia- for the beginning of Greek enlightenment, but probably when… — James John Courtenay Buddhism Copy Share Image
“The inhabitants of Samaria seem to have perpetuated a form of Chaldee, hence their dialect had some likenesses to Babylonian Aramaic.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“... at no period did Greek become the language of Palestine.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The original language of the descendants of Abraham was not Aramaic, which was changed to Hebrew when the tribes of Israel entered… — James John Courtenay Judaism Copy Share Image
“The best remnants of Judaean Aramaic are found in Ezra, Daniel and the Palestinian Targums.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The Rabbinic pronunciation of ת sometimes approaches the ס sound.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The influence of Arabic on the language of Palestine was mainly in vocabulary. Thus is seen to some extent in the text… — James John Courtenay Bible Copy Share Image
“... was considered corrupt and barbarous. The cultivated sense of the metropolitan Jew was often offended by the rough and ready speech… — James John Courtenay Communication Copy Share Image
“Assyrian and Aramaic had long separate histories before the time of Nebuchadrezzar. But evidence shows that these languages came into contact with… — James John Courtenay Time Copy Share Image
“There is no clear connexion between Arabia and the primitive Semitic element in Babylonia.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The likeness of Ethiopic to Arabic suggests an original tribal affinity.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to make a clear distinction between Babylonia and Assyria.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“From Egyptian writing the Phoenicians constructed an alphabet which passed into world-literature ... Herodotus attributes the transliteration of Phoenician letters into the… — James John Courtenay History Copy Share Image
