[b-hebrew] Ugarit and Hebrew
Mark Spitsbergen
awakesd at mac.com
Fri Jun 5 20:18:23 EDT 2009
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> From a linguistics point of view isn't Ugarit closer to Hebrew than
> Akkadian? Should we suspect that if Avram actually came from
> Northern Messopotamia that he was more influenced by Ugarit than
> Akkadian? I believe (oops not suppose to believe on this list:) that
> the Akkadian Empire also ruled Northern Messopotamia before 2000 BCE
> so certainly there would have been an influnence of Akkadian as
> well. When studing the Ras Shamra text are we possibly looking at
> ancient Hebrew or a dialect of ancient Hebrew? Does anyone know of
> someone who did their dissertation on or a nearly related subject to
> the relationship of Hebrew and Ugarit.
Thanks,
Mark Spitsbergen
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