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Catholic scholarship and Aramaic
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Akhi bar-Khela,

Why would I be upset about this? I agree with the author 100%, especially when he wrote:

Quote:Muslim scholars of the classical period debated already the question of whether or not there is 'non-Arabic' (Aramaic, Persian, etc.) linguistic material in the Qur.an, whereby at least the more broad-minded authorities were content that there was.

The bottom line is that even classical Muslim scholars admitted there was borrowing of Aramaic-Syriac within the Quran, just like there was borrowing of Aramaic-Syriac within the Greek NT and borrowing of Akkadian-Aramaic within the Hebrew OT.

The idea that Arabic is somehow "superior" or "older" than either Aramaic or Akkadian, both languages from which it not only derives but its alphabet and script is heavily based upon, is absurd.

The early Patriarchs were Arameans....and the Arameans never spoke Arabic. Arabic did not exist before the Arabs. Hebrew did not exist before the Hebrews.

It's just scientific, archaeological fact and common sense.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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Catholic scholarship and Aramaic - by oozeaddai - 10-29-2004, 07:46 PM
Blessed are the poor in spirit - by gbausc - 10-29-2004, 09:45 PM
Should've learned Arabic - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 04:12 PM
Re: Should've learned Arabic - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 04:26 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 04:57 PM
Bare knuckles - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 05:01 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 05:01 PM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 05:12 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 05:15 PM
Re: Should've learned Arabic - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 05:19 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 05:25 PM
Re: Should've learned Arabic - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 05:30 PM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 05:32 PM
[No subject] - by byrnesey - 11-01-2004, 08:09 PM
[No subject] - by oozeaddai - 11-02-2004, 03:30 AM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-02-2004, 04:34 AM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-02-2004, 07:40 PM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-02-2004, 08:04 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-02-2004, 08:10 PM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-02-2004, 08:50 PM
[No subject] - by oozeaddai - 11-02-2004, 09:21 PM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-02-2004, 09:24 PM
[No subject] - by oozeaddai - 11-02-2004, 09:31 PM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-02-2004, 09:48 PM
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