03-21-2004, 09:48 PM
The Chaldeans were not the only Aramean tribes in Mesopotamia - they were spread out all over. Genesis 25:20 speaks of Isaac's wife Rebekah being the daughter of an Aramean of Paddan-aram (in the Haran, "northern Assyria", area.) This is because Abraham wanted him to marry from his "own people." How is it that the Arameans were "his own people", Akhi, if Abraham wasn't an Aramean?
Arameans spoke Aramaic - the language named after them.[/quote]
Very convincing, Akhi.
I've been reading the works of Rev. Alphonse Mingana today. In his treatise "Syriac Influence on the Style of the Qu'ran," he compares, as Akh Keefa, religious and common Syriac terminology to word usage in the Qu'ran. This is perplexing. Numerous historians say that the Bedouins were nomadic tribes who were fairly isolated, which is why Arabic was able to maintain its "proto-Semitic" features (supposing proto-Semitic exists) for so long. While the Nabateans clearly influenced with the Kufic script, I do not see how the particular dialect of Edessa infiltrated classical Arabic the way it did if the two peoples, Assyrians and Arabs, were isolated. What are your thoughts on this?
Arameans spoke Aramaic - the language named after them.[/quote]
Very convincing, Akhi.
I've been reading the works of Rev. Alphonse Mingana today. In his treatise "Syriac Influence on the Style of the Qu'ran," he compares, as Akh Keefa, religious and common Syriac terminology to word usage in the Qu'ran. This is perplexing. Numerous historians say that the Bedouins were nomadic tribes who were fairly isolated, which is why Arabic was able to maintain its "proto-Semitic" features (supposing proto-Semitic exists) for so long. While the Nabateans clearly influenced with the Kufic script, I do not see how the particular dialect of Edessa infiltrated classical Arabic the way it did if the two peoples, Assyrians and Arabs, were isolated. What are your thoughts on this?
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