Hebrew and Aramaic in the Persian period
Hebrew and Aramaic were the two main languages in use among the Jews during the Persian period. They are both north-west Semitic languages but while Hebrew belongs, together with Phoenician, Moabite and Ammonite, to the Canaanite branch, Aramaic forms a branch apart. Hebrew was the native tongue of...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2004
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The Cambridge history of Judaism ; Vol. 1: Introduction, the Persian period
Year: 2004, Pages: 115 129 |