Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 24/05/2004 15:31, Jack Kilmon wrote:

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> From: "UUC" <unikom AT paco.net>
> To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Prophetic Perfect? Psalm 107
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> > Dear Rolf,
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> > Can you please satisfy my curiosity? I was under impression that our
> > knowledge of the Phoenician is basically speculative, based just on
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> several
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> > hundred entries, certainly not something to base a theory on. Was there
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> any
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> > advance I'm not aware of?
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> The Phoenicean language (Punic) was still spoken in the 5th century.
> Augustine was facile in it.  The Canaanite languages, including Phoenician,
> descended from Ugaritic.  Phoenician spawned Punic, Moabite, Edomite, Hebrew
> and Ammonite.  A bibliography of Phoenician dictionaries and grammar can be
> found at:
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> http://www.lib.washington.edu/neareast/phoenlang.html
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> Jack
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These languages all had a common ancestor, true. But no one of them is 
clearly older than any of the others, except perhaps for Ugaritic. There 
was a common ancestor, proto-Canaanite or something similar, and all of 
these attested languages are its descendants, the leaves on a tree but 
not its trunk.

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