Jude 9 (Archangel--First in command and/or time?)

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Wed Dec 22 21:10:41 EST 1999


To: Bill Ross,

<< If I am not mistaken, Hebrew/Chaldee is considered to be 
great-grandparent to Greek somehow (via Babel, though) so there may be some 
echo... >>

Actually, it is near impossible for there to be any direct relationship 
between Hebrew and Greek aside from the borrowing of terms. Most Greek 
roots are monosyllabic and most Hebrew roots are tri-consonantal. And so it 
is near impossible for the ancestor languages of Greek and Hebrew to have 
been related in any way, shape, or form. On the other hand there are a 
number of Semitic loan-words in pre-Hellenistic Greek. And, of course, it 
is well known that the Greeks borrowed their Alphabet from the Phoenicians 
(which was a Semitic source). For a good book on Near Eastern influence 
upon Greek culture, one should see Walter Burkert's "The Orientalizing 
Revelution" (Harvard UP, 1992).

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Disclaimer: "I'm just a simple house-husband (with no post-grad degree), 
what do I know?"




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