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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
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> At 5:46:04 PM on Monday, June 5, 2006, mkelkar2003 wrote:
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> [...]
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> > Semitic influence on Greek names:
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> > http://www.world-destiny.org/a7opn.htm
I am only interested one table from the above link:
"Classical Greek Gods and Myth Figures Hebrew Word"
> > http://assemblyoftrueisrael.com/Documents/GreekvsHebrew.htm
>
> More nonsense:
>
> We must keep in mind that [Greek] has many non-Adamic
> elements, and is in fact based upon pagan Polytheism.
>
> Many authorities on the subject will agree that indeed
> many of the classical languages were related and in fact
> evolved from or into one another. They will admit that
> the Ancient Greek language was intimately related to
> Phoenician. This is not theory, but fact traceable
> through stone inscriptions left by each of these
> cultures.
>
> It would be nice if you'd spare us the nut cases.
>
> Brian
>
I agree with you about the author of the second link; Definitely a
Christian fundamentalist writer.
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http://assemblyoftrueisrael.com/Documents/GreekvsHebrew.htm>
But he cites some very old "research" such as:
"Noah Webster held a different view. ("Author's Preface" Web 1849) He
observed that many "modern" English and European words not only
resemble but possibly even were descendant from the Semitic branch of
the language tree. He went so far as to make a comparison of 20
different languages, both classical and modern, and detailed the way
in which a north Semitic word progressed from its country of origin
through Old German, Scandinavian, French, Gaelic, or Celtic and became
the modern English word. His work was rejected by many "experts" of
his day. These same experts also ridiculed his dictionary as grossly
inadequate, and a work that would fail in ineptitude. So much for the
experts!"
"This theory (of Noah's (not Noah Webster's) three sons)) fit nicely
with the established idea that all European peoples belonged racially
to the Aryan or Indo-European racial group, and were thus descendants
of Japheth."
G. Selway (msg 44870) has already brought up century old work of Sir
John Rhys and Morris linking Celtic and Semitic. It seems to me that
in the old days, at least some people found it fashionable and
scholarly to trace links between Semitic and IE.
I see the difficulty faced by Indo European linguists of today. How
do you stay clear of the Christian fundamentalist on the one hand and
the revisionist M. Bernal types on the other, who want to label you as
closet Eurocentricist?
M. Kelkar