You are getting dirty and personal again, which is
a sign that I should bow out of this discussion. In
fact, that is why the moderators told us to knock
it off last time we got into a knock down, drag it
out argument.
As for the disputed stone, once you gave me a clue
as to where to find more information on the web
other than what I claimed was a flakey, hence
untrustworthy site (I mentioned that it was a clue
only because I had seen photos of the stone in
books as well), I found information where it was
found, that it was not in the deserts of eastern
nor southern Jordan, and if you truly are a
scholar, you can find that information too.
Unless you can produce documents showing that what
we have are not close copies of older documents
reflecting the older linguistics, your claim has
no merit.
What you need is a large body of transitional[...]
documents from Ugaritic to Biblical Hebrew to
demonstrate that Ugaritic is ancestral to Biblical
Hebrew. You have failed to produce that body of
documents.
That is how you would establish the
evolution of Semitic languages, by using
extensive documentation.
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