On 29/12/2003 09:32, Jim Allan wrote:
...
Difference of language means there isn't much use in doing
cross-searches between material written in Phoenician and material
written in Greek. The same is not true about cross-searching material
written in any northwest Semitic language. The languages are very
close. Names will usually appear identically. It is impossible to say,
for example, whether the Gezer calendar is written in Phoenician
language or the Hebrew language or some other closely related language.
...
Phoenician should *not* be considered Hebrew. They are different
languages, though very closely related.
Jim, you seem to be almost contradicting yourself here. In fact it is by
no means certain that there were separate Hebrew and Phoenician
languages at the time of the Gezer calendar (9th century BCE? - from
memory). At least they may have been no more different than British and
American English. They did gradually grow apart. But at the start they
were one.
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