1. It is true that there are photographs of Akkadian and Ugaritic
cuneiform tablets online. What is written there I don't know; what
other people say is written there I doubt.
2. Proto-Semitic is a legend.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Aug 29, 2013, at 6:34 AM, Stewart Felker wrote:
Well, there's a sense in which I can't independently verify the
existence of the state of Idaho, as I've never stepped foot in it
(or even flown over it). But surely I can read books and look at
photographs of it - in the same way that you can find photographs
of Akkadian and Ugaritic cuneiform tablets online, and then find
the transliterated text, and look at syntax, verb forms, and
lexical material, and verify that they are attested languages.
I'm curious: does your skepticism only apply to languages descended
from Proto-Semitic - or do you deny the existence of Hittite and
Sanskrit and Mycenaean Greek too?
On Aug 29, 2013, at 4:34 AM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote:
No. The tentatively reconstructed languages are unacceptable
because I have no way of independently verifying the veracity of
what is being said about them.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Aug 28, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Stewart Felker wrote:
Question: are languages other than Hebrew (and...Aramaic?)
unacceptable to talk about because they're corruptions of the
primordial heavenly tongue?
SF
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote:
1. Rebekah's family spoke some sort of Hebrew-Aramaic.
2. Their gods were the gods of the east, and they named their
children after them. All names from that period are theophoric,
including יצחק IYCXAQ, which I think is a deliberate corruption
of איש-חק I$-XAQ or איש-שחק I$-$AXAQ. Recall
יששכר which
is certainly איש-שכר I$-SAKAR.
2. I will listen to your ideas under the condition that you refrain
from mentioning any other language but Hebrew and Aramaic.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Aug 28, 2013, at 5:39 PM, [email protected] wrote:
how Rebekah would have viewed the name ($W. Then the meaning
and etymology of the name ($W will become clear
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