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Oldest Semitic Text Found?
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:22 pm
by 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.
Re: Oldest Semitic Text Found?
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:49 pm
by clubs_stink
Minimalist wrote: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
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:33 pm
by Minimalist
I don't think it says a "mixture." It's that there famous "remote common ancestor" idea.
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:34 am
by 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