Oldest Semitic Text Found?

[Minimalist]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200701 ... 9RAGC.html

"This is highly significant because maybe, according to the researcher, it dates to the third millennium B.C., so it's the most ancient pre-Canaanite text that we ever met and maybe ... it is the most ancient Semitic text ever discovered," said Moshe Florentine, an expert on ancient Hebrew and a member of the language academy.

The Semitic language of these texts that have now been deciphered was a very archaic form of the languages later known as Phoenician and Hebrew, Steiner said.

[clubs_stink]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200701 ... 9RAGC.html

"This is highly significant because maybe, according to the researcher, it dates to the third millennium B.C., so it's the most ancient pre-Canaanite text that we ever met and maybe ... it is the most ancient Semitic text ever discovered," said Moshe Florentine, an expert on ancient Hebrew and a member of the language academy.

The Semitic language of these texts that have now been deciphered was a very archaic form of the languages later known as Phoenician and Hebrew, Steiner said.

WHAT?? A mixture of Phoenician and hebrew?

They just need to keep on finding things... finding right back until we see they were sharing far more than we could imagine

[Minimalist]

I don't think it says a "mixture." It's that there famous "remote common ancestor" idea.

[marduk]

they were willing to do anything to protect the mummies of their kings from the poisonous snakes.

seems like a bit too little too late if you ask me
unless theyre talking about grandma

"I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy." -- W.C. Fields