[b-hebrew] Hebrew and Aramaic Spellings
Mark Spitsbergen
awakesd at mac.com
Mon Jan 7 07:02:29 EST 2008
> Yigal, I did not mean to imply that Aramaic was any less Semitic
> than Hebrew only that there are differences in the spelling of the
> same words between the two; your explanation is helpful. Also,
> would you consider Arpachshad to be a Semitic name?
>
Thanks
Mark Spitsbergen
> In any case, there is nothing more "truly Semitic" in the Gen.
> spellings or
> "more Aramaic" in the Chr. spellings, besides which of course
> Aramaic is
> just as "Semitic" a language as Hebrew.
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Yigal Levin
>
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