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Saadia Gaon
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shlomo oh bar_khela,

It seems odd that someone would try to use Arabic to explain classical hebrew word, because Aramaic and Hebrew share alot of vocabulary. Also in reference to Arabic we know that it used the Aramaic vowels for its language.

Examples:

basar <= "Flesh" in Hebrew
b??sra <= "Flesh" in Aramaic
basra <= "Flesh" in a more Archaic Aramaic Pronunication
lahm <= "Flesh" in Arabic
lahma <= "Bread" in Aramaic
laham <= "Bread" in Hebrew

shma' <= "Hear" in Aramaic
shama' <= "Hear" in Hebrew
sma' <= "Hear" in Arabic

The first vowel in Arabic is called "Fatha", and in Aramaic is called "Ftaha". We know that the Aramaic vowels are the source for Arabic.

Also as a side note, in Christianity we say that during the the Last Supper Our Lord Jesus-Christ transformed the Bread into His Flesh.

poosh bashlomo,
keefa-moroon

bar_khela Wrote:I've done my research :biggrin:

"Since the beginning of the nineteenth century there has been a constant recourse to Arabic for the explanation of rare words and forms in Hebrew; for Arabic though more than a thousand years junior as a literary language, is the senior philosophically by countless centuries. Perplexing phenomenon in Hebrew can often be explained as solitary and archaic survivals of the form which are frequent and common in the cognate Arabic. Words and idioms whose precise sense had been lost in Jewish tradition, receive a ready and convincing explanation from the same source. Indeed no serious student of the Old Testament can afford to dispense with a first-hand knowledge in Arabic. The pages of any critical commentary on the Old Testament will illustrate the debt of the Biblical exegesis owes to Arabic."Alfred Guillaume, The Legacy Of Islam, 1931, Oxford, p. ix.
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Saadia Gaon - by bar_khela - 03-19-2004, 06:17 PM
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