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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Proto-Semitic, was WAYYIQTOL
  • Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:45:03 -0800

On 18/03/2004 15:07, Polycarp66 AT aol.com wrote:

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http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2004/mar12.html

gfsomsel


This article is full of unsubstantiated assertions, especially:

In the Holy Land, Aramaic supplanted Hebrew as the language of the people sometime between 721 BC, the year Israel's capital Samaria fell to Assyrian invaders, and 500 BC, following the fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon.


The only good evidence for widespread use of Aramaic in the land is about 500 years later!

Tobit is cited as evidence, but when and where was it written? If it was written in the setting and time of the story, it is a work of Jews dispersed in Aramaic speaking countries, and so was written in Aramaic for the same reason as much of Daniel. Or is it in fact from the post-Hasmonean period, when there does seem to have been increasing use of Aramaic in the land?

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Peter Kirk
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