Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>]

No James. You're only looking at half the equation. I'm simply asking when 
the most plausible time was for PERSIAN to have become a significant language 
that would send loanwords into other languages. The Persian Era is the most 
plausible for that. Before that time, Persia was not a major international 
player, so it is far less likely that Persian loanwords entered Hebrew before 
the Persian Era. Anything is possible, but not everything is probable.


Regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au


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From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:38:02 +1000
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the value of loanwords was qohelet

Hi,

are you suggesting that Aramaic was not the 'primary international
language' in the Ancient East in pre-exilic times?

James Christian