Hebrew Quote by 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

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

— 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

“For the character of Aramaic between the Exile and the Christian era we are indebted more to inscriptions than other writings.”

— James John Courtenay

“Syriac ... was not a prominent element in the language of Palestine in pre-Christian times.”

— 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

“Galilaean must not be regarded as a later and more degenerate form of Judaean, any more than Aramaic itself must be regarded as a…

— 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

“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

“... 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

“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