Catholic scholarship and Aramaic

[Paul Younan]

Well Islamic literature and culture owes its heritage to Aramaic Christians and Jews.


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It's elementary....Arabic was the last of the Semitic group of languages to be written, it was most likely the last to be developed to any degree past simple grunts.

Think about it for one second. Arabic became a literary language in the 7th century A.D. Akkadian texts, written in Cuneiform, exist from the 3rd Millenium B.C. Think about that time period....OVER three thousand years of written civilization and linguistic heritage.

What were the Arabs doing all that time? Well, if they didn't come along till Ishmael (the first "Arab") was born, that wasn't until 1,800 B.C.

That leaves the Arabs with 2,400 years of illiteracy...chasing lizards in the desert.

What does Arabic have to do with anything? For Chrissakes, the Lebanese taught the Greeks to read 1,000 years before Arabic finally became written down. Even the Greeks were literate before the Arabs.