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Dear George,
Considering that the Hebrews were
in Goshen for 430 years, and had limited (?) contact with the rest of
Egyptian society since they were shepherds, then slaves; and, finally, spent 40
years wandering in the wilderness. Now, it is obvious that those who came in
contact with the Hebrews would do so with the leaders and those who had
knowledge of the other language would have had a wider vocabulary. Furthermore,
I am extrapolating from Isaiah 36-39 (II Kings parallel) that the leaders
of the nation knew Aramaic in speaking with the Assyrian respresentatives that
this same scenario would have been present earlier until the Israelites entered
the land ca. 1400 BC. when they would have wider contact with the population NOT
removed from Canaan (see Joshua and Judges).
Rev. Bryant J. Williams
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