Judaism Quote by James John Courtenay

“The native language of Babylonia-Assyria did no doubt influence the language of Canaan, but chiefly through Phoenician script. The language found on Moabite Stone…

— John Courtenay James

“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“... before the first millennium BCE one cannot speak of a contrast between Canaanite and Aramaic, but rather a group of languages with various…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the fourteenth to thirteenth centuries BCE, regardless of what their language might have been before they…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Relatively the Canaanites were a cultured and active people, as Egyptian and other literary remains prove. From them the Israelites probably gained some knowledge…

— John Courtenay James

“It is found that Assyrian and Canaanite have certain terms in common, which are not found in other Semitic languages.”

— John Courtenay James

“Whether , therefore, Moabite, was a dialect of Hebrew, or Hebrew a dialect of Moabite, is no longer a problem to be solved. They…

— James John Courtenay

“While it is to be admitted that the chief source of the Canaanite languages (including Hebrew) was early Arabic, other elements came into their…

— John Courtenay James

“According to some scholars, after 1400 BCE ... Ya'udic and Aramaic separated from ... Canaanite group.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“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

“In the passage where Jacob and his descendants ... final break from Laban (Gn 31:47), various writers have seen an allusion to the time…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Hebrew ... belongs to the Canaanite group of languages ... this means that when the Israelite tribes settled in Canaan they adopted the language…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos