Judaism Quote by James John Courtenay

“The likeness of Palmyrene to Biblical Aramaic are quite pronounced, and show that the two forms are essentially one.”

— James John Courtenay

“The Palmyrene dialect was a modification of the early Hebrew, and its alphabet was among the first to diverge from the more ancient letter-forms…

— James John Courtenay

“The 'square' character (of the Hebrew language) indeed seems to have arisen out of the Palmyrene script .. No doubt Aramaic was written in…

— John Courtenay James

“In many cases the vowel-letters are omitted in Palmyrene where they are found in Hebrew.”

— James John Courtenay

“Palmyrene and Nabataean dialects, which use an Aramaic script ... in the opinion of some experts might really be dialects of Arabic.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“In general it must be concluded that the accentuation of the Palestinian Aramaic (derived from Aramaic of Babylonia) was the same as the Biblical…

— John Courtenay James

“The Palestinian Aramaic in general is not to be distinguished from the Aramaic portions of Daniel, Ezra and the Targums in their original form.…

— James John Courtenay

“Samaritan Targum ... maybe compared with the Aramaic of the Jerusalem Talmud and with the Palestinian Syriac. On the whole it was more akin…

— James John Courtenay

“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

“Mandaean ... letter-forms resemble the older Syriac ... Estrangelo character ... considerably coloured by Arabic ... likeness to Nabataean and the Babylonian Talmud.”

— James John Courtenay

“The inhabitants of Samaria seem to have perpetuated a form of Chaldee, hence their dialect had some likenesses to Babylonian Aramaic.”

— James John Courtenay

“The Judaean dialect - This form of Palestinian Aramaic was akin to Nabataean and Palmyrene ... In its earliest form the language shows a…

— James John Courtenay