Time Quote by James John Courtenay

“Syriac is a later development of Aramaic.”

— James John Courtenay

“Aramaic did not come into Palestine until after the Babylonian-Assyrian conquest of the country.”

— James John Courtenay

“It is evident that at no period between the Exile and the Christian era was there one homogeneous language in Palestine. But during practically…

— James John Courtenay

“Judaean Aramaic is in no sense a mixture of Hebrew and Syriac.”

— James John Courtenay

“The books of the Old Testament, as we know them, do not represent the language of Palestine as spoken at any one time or…

— James John Courtenay

“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

“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

“The influence of Arabic on the language of Palestine was mainly in vocabulary. Thus is seen to some extent in the text of Old…

— James John Courtenay

“The best remnants of Judaean Aramaic are found in Ezra, Daniel and the Palestinian Targums.”

— James John Courtenay

“It is doubtful whether the vernacular of Palestine admitted any Greek element prior to the Christian era. Even in the Greek form of the…

— James John Courtenay

“... 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 original language of the descendants of Abraham was not Aramaic, which was changed to Hebrew when the tribes of Israel entered Canaan.”

— James John Courtenay