Bible Quote by 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 Hebrew inscriptions are practically all pre-exilic, and do not shed much light on the language of Palestine after the Captivity.”

— James John Courtenay

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

— James John Courtenay

“... at no period did Greek become the language of Palestine.”

— 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

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

— James John Courtenay

“It is safe to say that the speech of Palestine at the end of the first century B.C. was sufficiently one throughout the country…

— James John Courtenay

“Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.”

— 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

“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

“As Jesus, the Word, is of divine origin as well as a thoroughly human figure of first-century Palestine, so is the Bible of ultimately…

— Peter Enns

“All Semitic languages are perhaps ultimately traceable to Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay