Catholic scholarship and Aramaic

[Paul Younan]

Heheheh.

Akhi bar-Khela, while the Arabs who were descendant from Ishmael were eating lizards in the desert of Arabia....their Semitic ancestors of Mesopotamia and the Levant were building half of the world's civilization as we know it today. While these civilizations were creating complex literature, science and advanced mathematics including geometry and calculus.....lizard-eating Arabs were still counting on their fingers.....when their hands were free from picking lice off each other's backs.


C'mon, my beloved friend of many years! Must we resort to abusive ad hominems?

Nothing wrong with chasing lizards in the desert, Akhi. The point is that they were too busy looking for the next watering hole to contribute anything to civilization until well after it had already been firmly established.

Don't pull this "Arabic" supremacy stuff on me.... <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/happy.gif" alt="" title="Happy" /><!-- s --> Everyone who is from the area, except the Arabs, knows they were a bunch of highway brigands before they were civilized by the contacts with others.

Arabic has got nothing on Hebrew, let alone Aramaic....both of which were already highly developed by the time the Arabs became literate.

It's just the truth.