06-14-2013, 03:35 AM
Akhan Konway,
"Hebrew" is Aramaic that had become Canaanized over centuries.
These tribes came from Aramean stock. It does not make sense that they spoke a language that was different from their immediate relatives. There is no logical way to explain that scenario. The ancient Arameans did not speak "Hebrew."
Likewise, Arabic is really Aramaic that had become "Egyptianized". These people came from Aramean stock. It's impossible that Ishmael could not understand the speech of his Aramean father Abram. His mother Hagar onviously spoke Egyptian as her native tongue, and Aramaic with her masters Abraham and Sarah.
If you take a bunch of Aramaic people and stick them in Canaan for a few centuries, their language will evolve into something like Hebrew. They will even take the writing of the Canaanites as their own.
If these people were not Arameans and if they did not speak Aramaic, then the scriptures are lying to us.
If suddenly Abraham forgot Aramaic when he crossed over the Euphrates river from Mesopotamia the land of his father, then maybe we should all become Hebrew primacists.
The fact of the matter is that Aramaic has always been the language of the Hebrews. It's not a foreign language they just learned to speak in the first century. It was an older language to them than "Hebrew" was. The educated among them understand that. The uneducated nationalists among them refuse to.
The video below is all in Aramaic, but the professor from Tel Aviv explains how Aramaic is the language of the Jews.
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+Shamasha
"Hebrew" is Aramaic that had become Canaanized over centuries.
These tribes came from Aramean stock. It does not make sense that they spoke a language that was different from their immediate relatives. There is no logical way to explain that scenario. The ancient Arameans did not speak "Hebrew."
Likewise, Arabic is really Aramaic that had become "Egyptianized". These people came from Aramean stock. It's impossible that Ishmael could not understand the speech of his Aramean father Abram. His mother Hagar onviously spoke Egyptian as her native tongue, and Aramaic with her masters Abraham and Sarah.
If you take a bunch of Aramaic people and stick them in Canaan for a few centuries, their language will evolve into something like Hebrew. They will even take the writing of the Canaanites as their own.
If these people were not Arameans and if they did not speak Aramaic, then the scriptures are lying to us.
If suddenly Abraham forgot Aramaic when he crossed over the Euphrates river from Mesopotamia the land of his father, then maybe we should all become Hebrew primacists.
The fact of the matter is that Aramaic has always been the language of the Hebrews. It's not a foreign language they just learned to speak in the first century. It was an older language to them than "Hebrew" was. The educated among them understand that. The uneducated nationalists among them refuse to.
The video below is all in Aramaic, but the professor from Tel Aviv explains how Aramaic is the language of the Jews.
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+Shamasha