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  • From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
  • To: "'Read, James C'" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Aramaic - Abba
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:34:54 -0300

James wrote:

> I can't remember my sources but I thought it was quite plain
> that in this period Aramaic had firmly supplanted the Hebrew
> language in everyday use. This is a change which commenced with
> the exile of the Jehudans in Babylonia and in the days of Ye$ua
> had already taken a firm root.

I would be very interested in the primary sources you would use to argue
this point, or even secondary literature written since the discovery of the
Dead Sea Scrolls.

Ken Penner





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