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| | Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language) |
 | | These are the Syriac language (or to use a better term, Syriac dialect because Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic and not a language on its own) of the Christians, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Mandaean, the language of the Mandaean Gnostic sect. | | | Hebrew was revived as a spoken language to provide a lingua franca for Jews who moved to Palestine in the late 19th century. | | | The West Aramaic languages include Nabataean, Palmyrene, Aramaic of Hatra, Jewish Palestine Aramaic (or Galilean Aramaic), Samaritan Aramaic and Christian Palestine Aramaic (Palestinian Syriac). |
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http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html
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| | Languages Of The Old Testament (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools |
| | The educated classes were deported to Babylon or fled to Egypt, and those who remained were not slow to adopt the language used by their conquerors. | | | Including (a) East Aramaic or Syrian (language of Syrian Christians), language of Babylonian Talmud, Mandean; (b) West or Palestinian Aramaic of the Targums, Palestinian Talmud (Gemara), Biblical Aramaic ("Chaldee"), Samaritan, language of Nabatean inscriptions. | | | Hebrew as it appears to us in the Old Testament is in a state of decadence corresponding to the present position of spoken Arabic. |
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http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/5418
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| | Hebrew language |
| | Semitic language used in Israel principally by Jews. | | | Hebrew comes from Egyptian "apiru", which was the designation used for class in the Egyptian society hiring themselves out for specific services. | | | 1948: With the establishment of the state of Israel, Hebrew becomes the official language. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/hebrew.htm
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| | Jewish, Jewish, Everywhere, & not a drop to drink |
| | It's a sub-category of Category:Ashkenazi Jews (as Yiddish was the language of the Ashkenazi Jews only) which is a sub-category of Category:Jews which is a sub-category of Category:Jews and Judaism. | | | The related languages might be partially covered by discussion and partially be links, links not oly to discussion of the language found in old inscriptions (such a Moabite, Ammonite, and Philistine inscriptions) but also to partially Hebrew languages like Yiddish. | | | On the other hand, as nyh points out, people looking for an article on the Hebrew language should be presented with an article which discusses it as it exists today, while mentioning the history, and with links to articles discussing historical variants. |
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http://simshalom.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_simshalom_archive.html
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| | Semitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With the emergence of Islam, the ascendancy of Aramaic was dealt a fatal blow by the Arab conquests, which made another Semitic language - Arabic - the official language of an empire stretching from Morocco to Pakistan. | | | Descendants of Aramaic continue to be spoken by small minorities in the mountains of northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, and Syria, while an older descendant of Aramaic, Syriac, is used liturgically by many Iraqi Christians. | | | Both are official languages of their respective countries, while Ge'ez remains the liturgical language for Christians there. |
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http://www.lighthousepoint.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Semitic_language
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| | The Languages of the Bible |
| | John 19 states that the description of Jesus as "King of the Jews" was written on His cross by order of Pilate in three languages. | | | "In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction." This development will have been preceded by the repentance and conversion of the Israeli Jewish population at Christ's return (Zechariah 12:10-14). | | | Jacob ended a period of exile in Syria with a formal agreement with his cousin Laban. |
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http://www.kubik.org/vcm/language.htm
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| | The Mesha Stone |
| | However, because Ahaziah was constantly ill and retained little control of his government, it took Israel a long time to react to Mesha's rebellion. | | | When Jehoram took over, "he chose Jahaz as his headquarters, and fortified the city" against a Moabite attack (Smelik, Converting 91). | | | After offering his son as a holocaust, the Israelite forces lost moral and fled leaving Jahaz prime for the taking (Smelik, Converting 91). |
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http://www.creighton.edu/~jaywok/Mesha-right.htm
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| | Health Information from Natural Solutions Radio -- THE LANGUAGE OF GOD? |
| | The Children of Israel MUST have become Egyptianized and there is ample evidence in the Biblical account that they were. | | | In so doing we did find evidence of mass movements of populations at the end of the Early Bronze age which could have accounted for the Exodus story in the Torah. | | | One thing for sure is that Hebrew could not and did not develop from Egyptian. |
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http://www.naturalsolutionsradio.com/articles/article.html?id=12646
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| | Hebrew language - TheoWiki |
| | This name is first used by the Jews in times subsequent to the close of the Old Testament. | | | It was never spoken in its purity by the Jews after their return from Babylon. | | | This also has been a source of difficulty in interpreting certain words, for the meaning varies according to the vowels which may be supplied. |
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http://theowiki.com/index.php/Hebrew_language
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| | moab |
| | As a consequence of these events, Israel, Judah and Edom united in an attack on Moab, resulting in the complete overthrow of the Moabites. | | | By his descent from Ruth, David may be said to have had Moabite blood in his veins. | | | Their existence is attested to by numerous archeological findings, most notably the Mesha Stele, which describes the Moabite victory over Omri king of Israel (see 2 Kings 3). |
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http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/Moab.html
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| | I never implied that I think that there was a "Kingdom of Israel at the time of the Izbet Sartah ostracon". | | | This is a Moabite inscription written in the Moabite language, but in Hebrew letters which the Moabites adopted in all likelihood from the northern kingdom of Israel. | | | This is a Moabite inscription written >in the Moabite language, but in Hebrew letters which the Moabites adopted >in all likelihood from the northern kingdom of Israel. |
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http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1998/v1998.n277
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| | The Rosetta Project: the 1000 language archive |
| | Tell us about books, archives, organizations, and websites where we can find texts and other resources to build our archive. | | | Send a message to a language specialist or native speaker who might be able to review or contribute materials. | | | Learn more about how you can help The Rosetta Project by sponsoring this language. |
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http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/detailedlanguagerecord?ethnocode=XMOA
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| | History of the Bible |
| | Today, Hebrew still serves as the language of Judaism, the religion of the Jews, and is also the official language of Israel, although some write in Yiddish. | | | 19:18) or "the Jews’ language" (2 Kings 18:26, 28 KJV and parallel passages; also Neh. | | | The LXX, is not one book, but a collection of translations of the OT produced by Jews of the Dispersion. |
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http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterThree/HistoryOfTheBible.htm
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| | Historical proof of the Bible |
| | This ends the biblical account of Mesha, and if it weren't for the discovery of the Moabite Stone in 1868 by a German missionary, the story would have ended there. | | | Mesha retreated behind the walls of his citadel, Kir-hareseth, and it was there, upon one of these walls, that he sacrificed his first-born son as a burnt offering in order to invoke the wrath of his god, Chemosh, against Jehoram's army. | | | This prompted Ahab's son, Jehoram, to engage the alliance of Jehoshaphat, the King of Judah, and the King of Edom in a military campaign against Mesha. |
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http://agards-bible-timeline.com/q9_historical_proof_bible.html
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| | Articles - Hebrew languages |
| | The Hebrew languages refer to a variety of Canaanite languages and dialects historically spoken by various peoples in the region of Canaan whom Abrahamic religion believes to have been Hebrews who emigrated from the Chaldees. | | | Modern Hebrew language (State of Israel, reconstructed language) | | | Abrahamic religion believes that there were (at least) four Hebrew nations in Canaan: Ammon, Moab, Edom and Israel, all believed to be direct descendants of the Hebrew patriarch Terah, whose son Abram and grandson Lot (Abram's nephew) settled in Canaan and adapted to the local language of the Canaanites. |
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http://lastring.com/articles/History_of_the_Hebrew_language?...
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| | Canaanite languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Canaanite languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Hebrews, Phoenicians, and eventually Philistines. | | | All of them became extinct as native languages in the early first millennium CE, although Hebrew remained in continuous literary and religious use among Jews, and was revived as a spoken, everyday language in the nineteenth century by Eliezer Ben Yehuda. | | | in later Punic language: in Poenulus - by Plautus - beginning of 5th-Act. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_language
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| | Ammon |
| | Their language was likewise Semitic, and believed to have been related to Hebrew and the Moabite language. | | | The Ammonites were Semites, and ethnically close to modern north-Jordanians. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/ammon.htm
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| | Ancient Texts Relating to the Bible: El-Kerak |
| | Moabite is a language very much like ancient Hebrew and it was spoken by the people who lived in the country of Moab. | | | Moab was a kingdom situated across the Dead Sea from Israel and Judah. | | | Another inscription in Moabite, known as the Moabite Stone, tells about the victory of Mesha, king of Moab, over one of the descendants of Omri, king of Israel. |
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/ancient_texts/ElKerak.shtml
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| | Easton's Bible Dictionary |
| | By his descent from Ruth, David may be said to have had Moabite blood in his veins. | | | The Moabites were alarmed, and their king, Balak, sought aid from the Midianites (Num 22:2). | | | During the one hundred and fifty years which followed the defeat of the Moabites, after the death of Ahab (see MESHA), they regained, apparently, much of their former prosperity. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/ebd/ebd258.htm
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| | icira.net : Moab |
| | The Moabites were closely related to the Hebrews and were subject to Kingdom of Israel during the reigns of David and Solomon (11th-10th century BCE). | | | The Moabite stone, a block of black basalt found near Dibon, Jordan, in 1868, bears an inscription in the Moabite language from about 850 BCE which describes a victory of King Mesha of Moab over the Israelites in the early 9th century BCE. | | | Thereafter the Moabites ceased to exist as a separate people. |
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http://icira.net/tiki-index.php?page=Moab
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| | Moabite language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This page was last modified 05:36, 17 September 2005. | | | Most of our knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele, as well as the El-Kerak Stela; this is sufficient to show that it was extremely similar to Biblical Hebrew, despite a few differences. | | | The Moabite language is an extinct Hebrew Canaanite dialect, spoken in Moab (modern-day northwestern Jordan) in the early first millennium BC. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moabite_language
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| | Semitic language - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The term Semitic languages is the traditional way of refering to those languages which constitute the Northeastern subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages. | | | The most common Semitic languages spoken today are Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, and Tigrinya. | | | In linguistics, it has gradually come to be realized that "Semetic" is a term of some heated cultural objection and is thus no longer considered perfectly politically correct. |
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http://badpredictions.wacklepedia.com/s/se/semitic_language.html
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| | Mesha, King of Moab - ChristianAnswers.Net |
| | Mesha credits his successful revolt and recapture of Moabite territory, as well as other accomplishments, to Chemosh, national god of Moab. | | | About two-thirds of the pieces were recovered and those, along with an impression made before the stela was destroyed, allowed all but the last line to be reconstructed. | | | At the time of the Conquest at the end of the 15th century BC, the region was occupied by the Amorites, who had earlier taken it from the Moabites (Num 21:26). |
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http://christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a019.html
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| | Edomite language |
| | Biblically, since "Edom" is an alternate name of Esau, who was a descendant of Eber through Abraham, the Edomites are regarded as being a Hebrew people, as are the Moabites and Ammon (nation)Ammonites. | | | For this reason, the four closely related south Canaanite languages/ are sometimes termed "Hebrew languages". | | | The Edomite language is the extinct Hebrew languagesHebrew Canaanite language of the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BC. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/Edomite_language
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| | Biblical Archaeology Evidences for the Accuracy of the Scriptures |
| | The following is a list of some of the people, places and things that the tablet has in common with the Scriptures. | | | Biblical archaeology evidences for ancient Semetic presences through out the Middle East that verify the Scriptual records. |
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http://www.accuracyingenesis.com/biblicalarchaeology.html
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| | Mesha Stele |
| | Hebrew, Moabite, Ammonite and Edomite Inscriptions." Andrews University Seminary Studies 17 (1979) 47-70. | | | Smelik, Klaas A. "The Literary Stucture of King Mesha's Inscription." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 46 (1990) 21-30. | | | Dahood, Mitchell J. "The Moabite Stone and Northwest Semitic Philology." In The Archaeology of Jordan and Other Studies Presented to S. Horn. |
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http://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/westsem/mesha.html
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http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Moabite.htm
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| | AHRC - Ancient Semitic Inscriptions |
| | The copyrights to many of the pictures in the "Ancient Semitic Inscriptions" section belong to others, please notify us before using. | | | Bible History - The Moabite Stone and the Bible | | | For additional Information see the following web sites; |
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http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/6_15.html
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