03-20-2004, 10:59 PM
Fuel behind current hypothesis...
"....Modern linguistic scholarship established, certainly by the middle of the 19th century, that the Arabic language, both in the Qur'an and in other texts, contains a significant number of loan-words from several dialects of Aramaic (Syriac, Babylonian Aramaic, etc). Aramaic was the principal cultural language of the area between the Sinai and the Tigris for more than a millennium and it exercised a considerable influence on all the languages of the region, including the Hebrew of the later portions of the Old Testament. The Arabs participated in the civilisation of the ancient Near East, many of them were Christians or Jews, so there is nothing surprising about the fact that they borrowed heavily from Aramaic." Review Of Die syro-aram??ische Lesart des Koran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschl??sselung der Koransprache ('Christoph Luxenberg', 2000, Das Arabische Buch: Berlin) By Fran??ois de Blois
Borrowed heavily, yes. But what are you saying? Are you saying that Aramaic was already well established as a language before the separation of Ishmael from his Akkadian speaking father?
"....Modern linguistic scholarship established, certainly by the middle of the 19th century, that the Arabic language, both in the Qur'an and in other texts, contains a significant number of loan-words from several dialects of Aramaic (Syriac, Babylonian Aramaic, etc). Aramaic was the principal cultural language of the area between the Sinai and the Tigris for more than a millennium and it exercised a considerable influence on all the languages of the region, including the Hebrew of the later portions of the Old Testament. The Arabs participated in the civilisation of the ancient Near East, many of them were Christians or Jews, so there is nothing surprising about the fact that they borrowed heavily from Aramaic." Review Of Die syro-aram??ische Lesart des Koran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschl??sselung der Koransprache ('Christoph Luxenberg', 2000, Das Arabische Buch: Berlin) By Fran??ois de Blois
Borrowed heavily, yes. But what are you saying? Are you saying that Aramaic was already well established as a language before the separation of Ishmael from his Akkadian speaking father?
???Do not give up, for that is ignorance and not according to the rules of this art... Like the lover, you cannot hope to achieve success without infinite perseverance.???