Judaism Quote by 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

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

— James John Courtenay

“The exile marks the disappearance of this language (i.e., Biblical Hebrew) from everyday life and its subsequent use for literary and liturgical purposes only…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Various attempts have been made, with differing degrees of success, to reconstruct pre-exilic Hebrew, including its morphology.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“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 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

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

— James John Courtenay

“Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

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

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

— James John Courtenay