Judaism Quote by John Courtenay James

“Ancient Arabic may naturally be regarded as the chief source of the Hebrew language.”

— John Courtenay James

“It is found that Assyrian and Canaanite have certain terms in common, which are not found in other Semitic languages.”

— John Courtenay James

“The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the fourteenth to thirteenth centuries BCE, regardless of what their language might have been before they…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“... 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

“Relatively the Canaanites were a cultured and active people, as Egyptian and other literary remains prove. From them the Israelites probably gained some knowledge…

— John Courtenay James

“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

“Hebrew ... belongs to the Canaanite group of languages ... this means that when the Israelite tribes settled in Canaan they adopted the language…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“According to some scholars, after 1400 BCE ... Ya'udic and Aramaic separated from ... Canaanite group.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“It is found that the Egyptian language has an appreciable admixture of Semitic, which was derived ultimately from Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

“The 'Canaanite' migration from Arabia preceded the 'Aramaean' migration, that Hebrew was in some sense included in the former, and that something like a…

— 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