...cuneiform writing contain details of a "lost" Canaanite language that has remarkable similarities with ancient Hebrew.
One of *those* topics.
Posted on 01/31/2023 9:28:49 AM PST by BenLurkin
Two ancient clay tablets discovered in Iraq and covered from top to bottom in cuneiform writing contain details of a "lost" Canaanite language that has remarkable similarities with ancient Hebrew.
The tablets, thought to be nearly 4,000 years old, record phrases in the almost unknown language of the Amorite people, who were originally from Canaan — the area that's roughly now Syria, Israel and Jordan — but who later founded a kingdom in Mesopotamia. These phrases are placed alongside translations in the Akkadian language, which can be read by modern scholars.
In effect, the tablets are similar to the famous Rosetta Stone, which had an inscription in one known language (ancient Greek) in parallel with two unknown written ancient Egyptian scripts (hieroglyphics and demotic.) In this case, the known Akkadian phrases are helping researchers read written Amorite.
The two Amorite-Akkadian tablets were discovered in Iraq about 30 years ago...eventually they were included in a collection in the United States. But nothing else is known about them, and it's not known if they were taken legally from Iraq.
By analyzing the grammar and vocabulary of the mystery language, they determined that it belonged to the West Semitic family of languages, which also includes Hebrew (now spoken in Israel) and Aramaic, which...is now spoken only in a few scattered communities in the Middle East.
After seeing the similarities between the mystery language and what little is known of Amorite, Krebernik and George determined that they were the same, and that the tablets were describing Amorite phrases in the Old Baylonian dialect of Akkadian.
Many of the Amorite phrases given in the tablets are similar to phrases in Hebrew, such as "pour us wine" — "ia -a -a -nam si -qí-ni -a -ti" in Amorite and "yeinam shiqiniti" in Hebrew...
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
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I searched Canaanite and Amorite and found no previous articles on FR but something about this sounds familiar.
PinGGG!......................
It is not surprising that ancient languages of the entire area from Israel to Persia would have similarities.
What is surprising is that it took so long to find out...............
Along with the Mt. Ebal Curse Tablet recently discovered, its looking like the assumption that Moses never wrote the Pentateuch, “because there was no ancient Hebrew” argument is going to have to move some goalposts.
Akkadian.....accadian.....cajun! I bet Mary Matalin’s husband, James whutzizface, the crazy cajun could read it!
All the Canaanites got their butts kill’t back in Genesis.
Just sayin’.
The genocide of the Canaanites.
“BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE”
In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it. And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. (Isaiah 19:18-22)
...cuneiform writing contain details of a "lost" Canaanite language that has remarkable similarities with ancient Hebrew.
One of *those* topics.
Thanks BenLurkin. Nice twofer! BTW, it *is* ancient Hebrew.
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