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# Re: The Three Mothers and IHVH

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: The Three Mothers and IHVH
- From: "kxcorinth" <kxcorinth@...>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:05:23 -0000
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    By the way, Yod-He-Vav-He (IHVH) is believed by many to be the
    causative form of a lost verb in Hebrew for "To be". If it is so,
    then it meant "He causes to be" or "He brings into existence".

    In response to John's post:

    Phoenician was spoken in Lebanon and along the coast (to some
    extent) of North Africa where it was called Punic. It is not related
    to Berber (other than being in the Afro-Asiatic family) and the
    Berber people are not descended from Phoenicians. They have been in
    North Africa for a very long time.

    Hamitic is an old word that linguists (though I am not one) have
    pretty much dropped. Phoenician was Semitic as were the Canaanite
    language(s) and Hebrew. I believe the 'Hamitic' you are talking
    about used to be used to group languages like Somali (now called
    Cushitic).

    Aramaic was a sister language to Hebrew that grew to encompass most
    of the Middle East in Ancient times...Jesus and the people of his
    time spoke it. They were similar, but not the same.

    Aramaic later came up with another alphabet in three versions. They
    sort of look like Arabic but blockier.

    You are right about the living Semitic languages. The three major
    Ethiopic languages are the ones most people don't know about:
    Amharic, Tigre and Tigrinya. They are descended from the language of
    ancient South Arabian (present day Yemen) invaders called Ge'ez (in
    Axum).

    The famous (sort of famous) Keber Nagast was written in Ge'ez if I
    am not mistaken. I think a part of the Book of Enoch is recorded in
    it, but I am no expert in Biblical apocrypha or anything.

    --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, JohnWW <JohnWW@x> wrote:
    > One further point - I thought that Phoenician, used in what is now
    > Lebanon, was an Hamitic language, not Semitic, and indeed the same

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