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To: Red Badger
Thank you. That's what I thought. The article kind of confused me when it said the writing had Semitic roots. Ive always equated Semitism with Hebrew-ism . If that's a word.

There probably wasn't a whole lot of difference in whatever language Egyptians spoke and what language Hebrews spoke back then. I guess Moses could've been bilingual.

20 posted on 07/29/2025 11:19:23 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

He was. He was raised as an Egyptian Prince with a Hebrew nanny!....................


21 posted on 07/29/2025 11:20:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Texas Eagle

“There probably wasn’t a whole lot of difference in whatever language Egyptians spoke and what language Hebrews spoke back then.”

well from the time of Tower of Babel there were distinct languages and confusion in communication between people groups.


53 posted on 07/29/2025 8:40:38 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: Texas Eagle; Red Badger
There probably wasn't a whole lot of difference in whatever language Egyptians spoke and what language Hebrews spoke back then.

In the Book of Genesis, we see that translators were needed between Joseph and the Egyptians, and Joseph's Hebrew brothers (though Joseph, of course, could understand both languages). While in captivity, the Hebrews likely learned Egyptian to communicate with the Egyptians while retaining their own Hebrew language. Moses, raised in Pharoah's house with his Hebrew mother as his nursemaid, was fluent in both.

At the time, Egyptians spoke a now extinct version of the Egyptian language. A more evolved form of it lives on today as the Coptic language used in the Coptic Churches based in Egypt, which uses Coptic as a liturgical language, kind of like the Latin Rite Catholic Church uses Latin.

55 posted on 07/30/2025 9:27:19 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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