--- Richard Baker wrote: > Matt said: > > > I thought that BOTH the Christian and Muslim > religions > > grew out of and broke off from the Jewish > religion. > > "Muslim" and "Arab" are not synonyms, however. But > on the other hand I > have no knowledge at all of the ancient history of > Jews and Arabs. >
Here are a couple of sites that I skimmed - the first is from a translation of a 1912 (German?) Catholic scholar about "Semites" which states that Arabs are 'Arabaic-Abyssinian Semites' and Jews are 'Chanaanitic Semites': http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13706a.htm The second is actually about the Phoenecians and has a section on Semitic languages; it is run by a Lebanese 'Melkite Greek Catholic' who now lives in the Research Triangle (NC). This is a huge site, and has won the Britannica Award; it is also recommended by The History Channel. (Lest there be snarling in the ranks, I quote a statement from his homepage - "The Bible is a book about faith and not about history.") http://phoenicia.org/semlang.html The latter's section on Mediterranean history looks interesting too. Debbi who is spending entirely too much time 'surfing! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
