| 单词 | Semitic |
| 例句 | One minor modification that readers will already have noticed is that the Semitic and Greek g became the Roman and English c, while the Romans invented a new g in its present position. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet at the same time, the Bible and other Semitic traditions were full of the ideas of the infinite and the void, ideas that the Muslims already embraced. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All these features made the forms, names, and sequence of Semitic alphabet letters easy to remember. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Though the Semitic biblical cosmos toppled the Aristotelian one, the idea of an eternal, unchanging universe was not expunged completely, enduring even to the twentieth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He was a short boy, with a round face, dark hair, owlish glasses, and a very Semitic nose. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In addition, the earliest forms of the Semitic letters appear in many cases to have been pictures of those same objects. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Aristotelian system was Greek, but the Judeo-Christian story of creation was Semitic—and Semites didn’t have such a fear of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This is what drove Maimonides, the twelfth-century rabbi, to write a tome to reconcile the Semitic, Eastern Bible with the Greek, Western philosophy that permeated Europe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just like Saint Augustine 800 years earlier, Maimonides tried to reshape the Semitic Bible to fit into Greek doctrine: doctrine that had an unreasonable fear of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even the Semitic subfamily itself is mainly African, 12 of its 19 surviving languages being confined to Ethiopia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Alphabets apparently arose only once in human history: among speakers of Semitic languages, in the area from modern Syria to the Sinai, during the second millennium B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We instinctively associate Semitic peoples with the Near East. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From those earliest Semitic alphabets, one line of blueprint copying and evolutionary modification led via early Arabian alphabets to the modern Ethiopian alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Robert Graves linked these tohu to Tehomot, a primal Semitic dragon that was present at the birth of the universe and whose body became the sky and earth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "It looks Greco-Roman, but if you look closely you see Persian and Semitic styles, as well as influences from India and China," explains Mulder. The city that makes Rome blush: 5 reasons why Palmyra's ruins are so important 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Home to a boundary-breaking food scene, Chicago is emerging as a nouveau-deli capital, with three Semitic spots in the past year. The Jewish deli is having a moment in places where you’d least expect it 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Her vowels were nasal, her patois unmistakably Brooklyn; she had a gorgeous, frankly Semitic face. Review: How Streisand Became a Symbol, by Neal Gabler 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z This intersection found footing in tikkun olam, a Jewish practice of acting in ways that will most positively repair the world — a Semitic social justice. I’m Jewish and vegan — here’s how I celebrate Rosh Hashanah 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z His Semitic features suggested intelligence, but his shambling gait and inattention to his tonsure and sartorial presence suggested a man under extraordinary stress. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A new dog. A closed door. A mysterious puddle. Can Sherlock Holmes solve this case? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Warfare repeatedly pitched the pharaohs against the Semitic states of the Near East. Exhibition Review: Finding Ancient Egypt's Sense of Humor 2011-05-20T18:30:05Z “Jews were studying it in a traditional pious way,” said Jeffrey H. Tigay, the Ellis professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Moshe Greenberg, Jewish Biblical Scholar, Dies at 81 2010-05-20T04:04:00Z It was found near an ancient turquoise mining site in the Sinai Peninsula, in what was part of ancient Egypt, but the men who worked there spoke the Semitic language of the Canaanites. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z While the majority of inscriptions found at Hegra are in Nabatean, a Semitic language, some are in Greek, which lingered long after Alexander’s conquest of the Middle East. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z “Mrs. Dumpty,” a sequence of 44 lyrics published in 1998, charted the decline of her marriage to Ariel Bloch, a scholar of Semitic linguistics, after he sank into a crippling depression. Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z It mirrors the ambitions of Middle Eastern monarchies to establish a world empire, from the Semitic Assyrians in the eighth century B.C. to the Indo-European Persians, or, better said, Iranians, in the sixth century B.C. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z Raichel made his reputation in Israel as the ringleader of an expansive community of musicians playing infectiously grooving world pop songs with lyrics in Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi and the Ethiopian Semitic languages Amharic and Tigrinya. Idan Raichel and Vieux Farka Tour? find musical oasis in Sahara 2012-04-26T20:12:04Z It was among the first non-Biblical texts to confirm an event mentioned in the Bible, and became a key to the study of ancient West Semitic languages. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The architecture is a singular combination of Greek, Roman, Semitic and Persian styles. Islamic State reported to destroy historic tombs in ancient city of Palmyra, Syria 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z He also echoed Mr. Griffin’s remarks about how Black people are Semitic people by definition and that Semitic people are not white. ViacomCBS Fires Nick Cannon, Citing Anti-Semitic Podcast Remarks 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z In Semitic lands, Greek replaced Aramaic as the language of science and philosophy until the advent of Islam — which is why the last books of the Old Testament are in Greek. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z He called on Jews to "become a cell" of a "future Semitic commonwealth" modeled on the medieval golden age of Arab rule, when Jews and Arabs together acted as "torchbearers of world enlightenment." Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z As a scholar, Father Boadt, who had been rigorously trained in Semitic languages, specialized in the Old Testament. Lawrence Boadt, Priest, Publisher and Bible Scholar, Dies at 67 2010-07-30T20:47:00Z The show includes a plaque dated from 1800 B.C. that contains signs that seem to be inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics but that are actually the earliest letters of an alphabetic script representing Semitic languages. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z She grew up in the Pelham Bay neighborhood and, after graduating from Hunter High School in Manhattan, enrolled at Cornell University, earning a degree in Semitic studies in 1961. Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “Qumran was a massive shift,” Na’ama Pat-El, an expert in classical Semitic languages at the University of Texas in Austin, said, referring to the area where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z She married Mr. Bloch, a professor of Near Eastern studies and Semitic linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, while there pursuing a doctorate in English, which was granted in 1975. Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z An inscription is carefully engraved in Aramaic, the ancient Semitic language that was widespread across the Near East by the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z "I'm not offended on the level of being a Jew, I'm offended on the level of semiotics, not Semitics." Witch hunt or wise move? Cannes ponders expulsion 2011-05-19T17:31:31Z Still, no one really knows who the miners were, if they were literate or how they adapted hieroglyphics to write a western Semitic language. Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History 2010-10-19T21:55:00Z My escort tells me that Beachwood is “ethnic,” and, indeed, many Semitic people show up. On the Road with “Little Failure” 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He also, more intriguingly, tried to impose the worship of an all-powerful Semitic god on Rome. The Bizarre Lives of Rome’s Emperors 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z “You can’t be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people,” Mr. Cannon said. ViacomCBS Fires Nick Cannon, Citing Anti-Semitic Podcast Remarks 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z They are all part of the general Hellenizing trend that continued for several centuries across the Iranian world — as it did in the Semitic lands between Iran and the Mediterranean. Art Review: Murky Exploration of an Iranian Past 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z Jerusalem is a dirty town which all Semitic religions have made holy. Books of The Times: Scott Anderson’s ‘Lawrence in Arabia’ Revisits Legends 2013-09-08T20:10:15Z “These minor errors indicate that the priest was not a native Greek speaker but likely someone from the region who was raised speaking a Semitic language,” he said in the statement. Ancient inscription of Bible verse found at Judean archaeological site 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The division is both geographical and lingual: ancient Sumerian is not related to any modern language, but the Akkadian family of languages was Semitic, related to modern languages like Arabic and Hebrew. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Increasing numbers of Semitic- speaking peoples from the Levant flowed into Egypt, possibly the result of increased trade between Egypt and the Levant at first. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z And then shortly after that, we also found some passages written in an ancient Semitic language called Akkadian that is related to Hebrew and Arabic today. The First Kiss in Recorded History Dates Back Nearly 5,000 Years 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z It corresponds to the Hebrew letter Aleph, which corresponds to the Semitic word for ox. An Ancient People’s Oldest Message: Get Rid of Beard Lice. 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Canaanites spoke an ancient Semitic language — related to modern Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic — and resided in the lands abutting the eastern Mediterranean. Israeli archeologists find ancient comb with ‘full sentence’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z "The funny thing is I actually can't be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also. You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda." Kanye West to buy struggling far-right Parler after getting booted from Twitter for anti-Jewish rant 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Unlike the Babylonians, the Hittites were not from Mesopotamia, nor were they members of the Semitic language group. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also... You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone who opposes your agenda.” Kanye West spews more antisemitic conspiracy theories in leaked Tucker Carlson footage 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z "In Germany it was the untenable ‘anti-semitism,’ applicable only to Jews but not to Semitic Arabs, and today it is the equally untenable ‘anti-Israel,’ when no other country faces an anti movement." Rabbis condemn Duke student government's 'despicable double standard' on 'Jew-hatred' 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Gene Weingarten’s Aug. 8 Washington Post Magazine column, “A simple process of elimination,” was lovely and amusing, but his use of “Semitic” as an identifiable racial trait chilled me: “His Semitic features suggested intelligence.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A haunting photograph from Afghanistan that spoke volumes 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z They speak a version of Aramaic, a Semitic language spoken at the time of Jesus. Factbox: Iraq's Christian denominations 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Complicating the situation for the Babylonians, a Semitic group of unknown origin called the Chaldeans took control of far southern Mesopotamia during this period. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The region's main language is Tigrinya, a Semitic dialect with at least seven million speakers worldwide. Ethiopia crisis: Arrest warrants for officers amid Tigray fighting 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The men also discussed conspiracy theories involving the Rothschilds, a prominent banking family, and asserted that black people are Semitic people by, as Cannon put it, “birthright,” and therefore can’t be anti-Semitic. Nick Cannon fired by ViacomCBS for ‘hateful speech’ and ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theories’ in recent podcast 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z I invite the editors and Weingarten to substitute any racial or religious category for Semitic to see how bizarre and inappropriate this language is. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A haunting photograph from Afghanistan that spoke volumes 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z He also said the "Semitic people are black people", and that: "You can't be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people." TV host Nick Cannon fired over anti-Semitism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z The emperor Trajan added the Nabataean Kingdom, inhabited by a Semitic people of northern Arabia, to the Roman Empire in 106 CE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “Why ppl mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide,” he allegedly wrote in one entry. Suspect in attack at N.Y. rabbi’s home was questioned in earlier assault, police say 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The inscribed altar provides confirmation that the Moabites succeeded in taking over Ataroth, said study co-author Christopher Rollston, a professor of northwest Semitic languages and literatures at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Biblical war revealed on 2,800-year-old stone altar 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The Republican Party of Virginia denounced Samirah, reviving allegations that he is anti- Semitic, which first surfaced when he ran for office in a special election this year and which he has called a “smear.” Jamestown ceremony marks birth of democracy in America; black Va. legislators skip because of Trump 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The anti Semitic cartoon published by the @nytimes is a symptom of a deeper problem on the left. New York Times blames ‘single editor’ for anti-Semitic cartoon in new statement 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The Aramaeans, nomadic tribes who spoke a Semitic language and inhabited the Arabian Desert, migrated into Syria and Mesopotamia. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Dr. Civil was especially renowned for his work on lexical lists, bilingual tablets that catalogued various terms in Sumerian and Akkadian, a Semitic language also spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. Miguel Civil, preeminent scholar of world’s oldest written language, dies at 92 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z And King blames all of this on a conspiracy led by one Semitic force: George Soros, a billionaire investor whose money “floats in in such a way you can’t see the flow.” Opinion | Republicans need to condemn Trump’s brazen bigotry 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “Tomorrow if @jack is given a poster with anti Semitic messages in a meeting, will his team allow him to hold it up?,” Twitter CEO trolled for 'hate mongering' against India's Brahmins 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s acceptable to many on the left to employ anti Semitic tropes as long as they’re directed against Israel. New York Times blames ‘single editor’ for anti-Semitic cartoon in new statement 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Over time, the Akkadians adopted Sumerian culture and adapted cuneiform to their own language, a language of the Semitic family that includes the Arabic and Hebrew spoken today. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The suit says Majdalani is Semitic, was born in Lebanon and is of Lebanese descent. Auburn professor suing university, claiming discrimination 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z He later received a master’s degree in Semitic languages from Johns Hopkins University but concluded that “the church is a lot more interesting than the classroom.” Eugene Peterson, whose Bible translations sold millions of copies, dies at 85 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Their language is the source of Maltese grammar and a third of the lexicon, making Malti the only Semitic language in the European Union. The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z His defenders insist that while there are certainly a few anti- Semitic voices among the 500,000 Labour Party members, it is a very small number, and no more than among the Conservatives. Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party’s anti-Semitism ‘problem’ becomes a crisis 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z At some point, its people had adapted Sumerian cuneiform to their own language, which, like Akkadian, belonged to the Semitic family of languages, and archaeologists have discovered thousands of cuneiform tablets at the site. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z It also says, “The Jews are not Semitic they are Satanic as they all descend from Satan.” North Carolina GOP ends nominee’s support over racist posts 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z “The guy kind of represents the generic way Semitic people are described,” she said. 3,000-year-old sculpture leaves researchers scratching their heads 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z A separate study found comparatively high levels of anti- Semitic thinking among refugees with a Middle Eastern or North African background. After a refugee influx, does Germany have an imported anti-Semitism problem? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Labour has resisted the suggestion that it may be anti- Semitic to compare contemporary Israeli policies to those of the Nazis or to claim that Israel’s very existence is a racist endeavor. Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party’s anti-Semitism ‘problem’ becomes a crisis 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z People in the region came to speak Amorite, which belonged to the family of Semitic languages. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z They speak a Semitic language distinct from Arabic. Syria’s tiny Assyrian community celebrates its survival 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Soros dismissed the survey as a collection of “distortions and outright lies” that employed “anti- Semitic tropes reminiscent of the 1930s.” Once-fringe Soros conspiracy theory takes center stage in Hungarian election 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Videos on the Harvard Semitic Museum’s website, including a simplified version suitable for children, explain how players would move their game pieces depending on the throws of astragaloi or knucklebones. Math at the Met 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z While critics still praise his style, the interwar writer penned a number of passionately anti- Semitic pamphlets in the late 1930s, notably the infamous “Bagatalles pour un massacre.” Philip Roth is France’s newest literary superstar. Why? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z A written Semitic language known as Ge’ez survives in inscriptions from this period. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z This felt like another form of anti-Semitism — Arabs are Semitic people, too. Opinion | This caricature went too far 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Also leveled are the Temple of Baalshamin, a Semitic god of the heavens, and the Arch of Triumph, an iconic assemblage whose image is stamped on Syria’s 10-pound coin. ISIS militants battered Syria's ancient Palmyra, but signs of splendor still stand 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Number one, I am the least anti- Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life. Everything President Trump had to say at his first solo news conference 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Anderson said the 1924 law that slashed immigration rates was “hardly a model of good governance. It was one of the ugliest periods of the eugenics movement and extremely anti- Semitic.” After years on the outside, foes of legal immigration find a louder voice with Trump’s election 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The Himyarites originated from the kingdom of the Sabaeans, a Semitic people who had occupied southern Arabia from at least 1000 BCE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Final reports on the finds are being published by the Semitic Museum at Harvard University. Philistines were more sophisticated than given credit for, say archeologists 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Like other Semitic cultures of the day, the Nabateans used an indirect, “aniconic” style to indirectly represent their divinities: carved blocks, stelae and niches. Massive 2,150-year-old monument discovered at Petra 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Thousands of fragile clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing, including administrative records, letters and business deals that provide a glimpse at life nearly 4,000 years ago in the Semitic kingdom of Mari. With jihadis at the door, Syrians rush to rescue history 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He said that his grandparents had left Eastern Europe in the early 1900s to avoid anti- Semitic persecution and that his parents had instilled in him a desire for public service. Meet Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “Also the inherent sexism,” Micah Fitzerman-Blue, a slim young man blessed with, as he put it, “generic Semitic good looks,” added. The Radical Mind Behind “Transparent” 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z For centuries, Christians in those regions used the Semitic Syriac language, which is so near to Hebrew and Aramaic. Dead temples vs. living churches: ISIS is obliterating Christian communities — why aren’t we paying attention? 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z The doors of small study rooms, tucked along a balcony between the big Connemara columns, are still labeled “Greek,” “Latin,” “Semitic,” “Romance,” “German,” “English.” An Opulent Bronx Library in Decay, and in Search of a Purpose 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It was dedicated to the Semitic god Bel and is considered one of the most important religious buildings of that era. Islamic State destroys ancient arch in Palmyra, Syrian activists say 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Before the arrival of Christianity in the second century, Palmyra worshipped the Semitic god Bel, along with the sun god Yarhibol and lunar god Aglibol. Satellite images reveal Isis destruction of Palmyra's Temple of Bel 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The fate of a nearby temple dedicated to the Semitic god Bel was not immediately known. Islamic State destroys temple at Palmyra ruins in Syria 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z There are certainly Greek words borrowed from Semitic languages, including the ancestors of our words camel, sapphire and even sack, not to mention the Greek alphabet and the names of its letters. The Vocabularist: The roots of the word 'eurosceptic' - BBC News 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z The high point is the Temple of Bel—named for a Semitic god—a six-hundred-foot-long wall with a magnificent row of columns inside. ISIS in Palmyra 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z “Maybe the anti-Semitic accusation kind of hit that same vein among other Republicans on the state committee,” committeeman David Kelsay said. A fragile man, political whispers and a pair of suicides in Missouri 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Kaifeng Jews are proud of their Semitic roots, with some studying Torah and placing the traditional mezuza by their doorway. Ancient Chinese Community Celebrates Its Jewish Roots, and Passover 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Mandaic, an ancient Semitic language of Iraq and Iran, has only a few elderly speakers left, in Flushing and Nassau County. Can Dying Languages Be Saved? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z There is a suggestion that the continent's name may come from the Semitic languages of people further east - such as "ereb" in the Mesopotamian tongue Akkadian, meaning "sunset" and therefore "west". The Vocabularist: The roots of the word 'eurosceptic' - BBC News 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Peppered with many foreign words, particularly English, Italian and Arabic, it is the only Semitic language written in Latin characters. European Retirement is Affordable in Historic Malta 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z How convenient, then, that Einstein was a Jew, so that all of these deplorable traits could be labeled Semitic. How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein’s "Jewish Science" 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Their language was Tigrinya, an Afro-Asiatic tongue closely related to the ancient South Semitic Ge’ez and spoken in Eritrea and its diaspora, as well as in northern Ethiopia. Mourning a Husband 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Even the effort to try leading Nazis for war crimes offended Patton: “It is not cricket and is Semitic.” What Bill O’Reilly ignored about George Patton Inside the church, the congregants prayed in Syriac, an ancient Semitic language spoken in the pre-Islamic Levant and closely related to the old Aramaic probably spoken by Jesus. In Damascus, Christians briefly ignore war for Easter 2014-04-19T13:30:59Z Semitic god has always been acknowledged to have broken through time. Richard Rodriguez: “New Atheism has a distinctly neo-colonial aspect” 2013-12-15T16:00:00Z A bookseller reads a copy of an Ethiopian psalter, a 500-year-old book written in the ancient Semitic language of Geez, the antecedent to modern-day Amharic, at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair on Thursday. Africa in pictures: 7-13 June 2013 2013-06-14T13:44:01Z Learning Sites, an outside company that does 3-D scans of archaeological artifacts, had already been at Harvard helping the Semitic Museum digitize some of its ancient wares. 3D Printing Restores Ancient Statue 2013-01-30T06:35:00Z Both Arabic and Hebrew are Semitic languages that share as much as 40 percent of their grammar and word roots, experts say. Gaza Journal: Hamas-Run Schools in Gaza Set Out to Teach Hebrew 2012-05-23T00:52:36Z As to its characteristics and relation to other languages of the same stock, see Semitic Languages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z From this date onwards coins bearing its Semitic name, Ras Melkart, become common, and it was obviously an important border fortress. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Both myths are Semitic, and both have profoundly influenced Christian doctrine. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z The remains of one lion—fragments of its hindquarters and front paws—were claimed by Harvard’s Semitic Museum, while another more intact one made its way to the University of Pennsylvania. 3D Printing Restores Ancient Statue 2013-01-30T06:35:00Z Historians have recently made out that in one period of the history of Egypt there are traces of a kind of Semitic mania, a strong leaning towards Syrian and Arabian customs, phrases, and persons. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z Owing to the imperfection of the Hebrew alphabet, which, like that of most Semitic languages, has no means of expressing vowel-sounds, it is only partly possible to trace the development of the language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z In due time we shall see how difficult the process of reconciliation became between Greek and Semitic thought in this field also. The Making of the New Testament 2012-03-30T02:00:20.917Z Tobit, the earliest variant which we possess,20 is distinctly Semitic in origin and colouring. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z “It does the same thing that photography did to the expansion of the visual arts,” says Joseph Greene, the Semitic Museum’s assistant director. 3D Printing Restores Ancient Statue 2013-01-30T06:35:00Z It is a Semitic word denoting an interpreter of oracles. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Arabic, or, in other words, it does not come so near to that primitive Semitic speech which may be pre-supposed as the common parent of all the Semitic languages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z On his way thither he paused once or twice in front of shop windows to ascertain whether his face was not strikingly Semitic. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z “This is the first physical production we’ve done using this technology,” Adam Aja, an assistant curator at the Semitic Museum, tells TIME. 3D Printing Restores Ancient Statue 2013-01-30T06:35:00Z The influence of the Semitic queen is attested by the very fact that this library of cuneiform tablets was preserved. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z In Cyprus, on the frontier between the Greek and Semitic worlds, a struggle for ascendancy went on. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The language of the Arabians. µ The Arabic is a Semitic language, allied to the Hebrew. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The Semitic religion had as its basis a reverence for the bodies of the sky; and Samson, Hebrew for sun, was probably the sun-god of the Hebrews. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Before civilization had dawned in classic Greece, Egypt, Assyria and the Semitic races were using wind instruments of wood and metal which had left the primitive ram or bugle horn far behind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Concerning the origin of this rite in this region, Cameron says: “This custom of making brothers, I believe to be really of Semitic origin.” The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Probably the custom was of African origin, and came from eastern Africa along with the Semitic race. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z With the ruin of Carthage, Rome destroyed the ancient thought of Phœnicia, which was closely akin to the earliest Hebrew, and one of the most important among Semitic nations. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z Rosa damascena, which blooms twice a year, and the Musk Rose were cherished by the Semitic people; these were preferred for attar of Roses and Rose water. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z This conception has, indeed, formal points of contact with notions previously current, and even with the ideas of Semitic heathenism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z This latter seems to have been the Semitic family which, under the third George, occupied the position most closely analogous to that filled by the house of Rothschild under Queen Victoria. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Barton’s Semitic Origins is extremely able, but his doctrine of the derivation of male from original female deities is pushed to an extreme. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The whole problem is to connect the thought of this continent with that of the rest of mankind, but especially and above all with the Aryan and Semitic divisions of it. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z These were hardly if at all checked by the Semitic kinglings to whom the Romans delegated the government of eastern Palestine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Thus, all down the ages the Aryan mind has revolted from time to time against the religious ideas superimposed upon it by the Semitic mind. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Nor is it merely their wealth and the influence which money has brought that have placed the Rothschilds at the head of Semitic settlers in England. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The basis of it is Semitic rather than Egyptian; it would have been told more appropriately of Sennacherib than of the Egyptian Pharaoh. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z It is to be regretted that Semitic beliefs of the primitive period have not come down to us more numerously; for example, those of the Phœnicians, the earliest Hebrews, and other kindred nations. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z She said that was satisfactory, and Russell—having a little Semitic blood in his veins, I guess—said to himself, "I must have offered too much, she accepted so readily." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z The Akkadians—The Semitic Babylonians—The Hebrews—Nimrod—Assur—The Tower of Babel and the confusion of tongues—Babylonian temple-towers—How the legend probably arose—The Patriarchs to the time of Abraham. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z The script as finally developed and used by the Assyrians is cumbrous and complicated, and very ill adapted to the sounds of the Semitic alphabet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The story is a curious mixture of Egyptian and Semitic elements, while the inscription which the dragomen pretended to read upon the statue is a Greek invention. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z As the god of Saturn, the El of the Canaanites would have to be placed beside the Adar of the Eastern Semitic nations. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The names of men, women, and places in our land are not Hebrew or Semitic at all, but are traceable to another class of language altogether; yet this weighs nothing. The History of the Ten "Lost" Tribes Anglo-Israelism Examined 2012-01-22T03:00:22.903Z Yet the great majority of the inscriptions found in that country of a later date than about 2000 b.c. are Semitic. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z It was first adopted by the Semitic Babylonians, and as we have seen was History. modified, developed, nay almost made over. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The original picture-writing out of which the cuneiform syllabary developed, had been invented by the primitive non-Semitic population of Chaldæa, from whom it had been afterwards adopted and adapted by their Semitic successors. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z We found that the Canaanites, like the Hebrews, belonged to the great family of the Semitic nations; but they were distinguished from them in character, in dialect, and religious conceptions. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Semitic sailors gave it the name of Melkar—the Phœnician Hercules—and the word gradually changed into the present one, Monaco. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Besides the names of west Semitic deities, however, the names of west Semites themselves occur, and show that there was a considerable immigration in those ancient days into the country. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z But there is at present no clear proof of Phoenician or other Semitic activity in Cyprus until the last years of the 8th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z In the Semitic languages the genitive must follow the noun that governs it. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z Cadmus, the son of Armenak, is inserted in the story; and has been borrowed, as the form of the name shows, from Grecian sources, perhaps to represent the Semitic population in the South of Armenia. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The jewelers, with Semitic profiles, were waiting behind their counters, more for sellers than buyers, and calmly offered a fourth of the price for a gem bought in that very shop the year before. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z If Eri-Aku was called, in the Semitic tongue, Arad-Sin, “Servant of Sin,” as is possible, this name must be added too, but in that case his identification with Arioch would be less probable. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Repeated Semitic immigrations and influences have brought so many layers of loan-words that it is questionable if any modern Hamitic language has now more than 10% of original Hamitic words. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z His very name ceased to be Semitic, and henceforth became Zaphnath-paaneah. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z This name is without doubt the Semitic term for the population on the north shore of the Pontus, who were known to the Greeks as Cimmerians. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Did none of these intermarry with Aryans, and leave a half-caste Semitic or Negro or Tartar progeny behind them? The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z In the Akkadian text of the bilingual Creation-story, however, a gap is left in every line, sufficiently large to accommodate, in slightly smaller characters, the whole Semitic Babylonian translation. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z This Galla type does not seem to appear farther north than the southern portion of Abyssinia, and it is not unlikely that the Beja are very early Semitic immigrants with an aboriginal Negroid admixture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z There was little fear that the Semitic traveller would meet with insult or opposition from the Egyptian fellahin on the way. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z On the religion of the Phrygians the rites of their Semitic neighbours on the north and south no doubt exercised a strong influence. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Strike out the Semitic idea which was thundered from Sinai, and that very thing which cost the Jews ages of persecution would with it be thrown away. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z Thus Shelah might mean “extension,” indicating the time when the Semitic race began to go beyond its ancient borders. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Of the vocabulary it must not be forgotten that none of the Hamitic tongues remained untouched by Semitic influences after the separation of the Hamites and Semites, say 4000 or 6000 B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z They were the Semitic nomads from the East who, like their descendants to-day, occasionally settled on the frontier-lands of Egypt, and became more or less unwilling agriculturists. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z The Arabs have developed in the most healthy and marked manner the characteristic features of the Semitic race. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The third and last class are the Semitic languages, as they are styled—the Hebrew and the Arabic, which, together with their kindred dialects, form the summit or apex of this pyramid. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Lower part of the obverse of a terra-cotta tablet from Nineveh, inscribed with the names of Babylonian kings in Sumerian and Semitic Babylonian. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Frequent attempts to detach Egyptian from Hamitic and to attribute it to a Semitic immigration later than that of the other Hamites cannot be proved. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z In the other islands numerous Semitic traces are found, and in all of them are the rock-signs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Whatever be the value of this supposition, we may in any case assume that the Semitic races found older inhabitants and an older civilisation on the lower Euphrates and Tigris. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The general characteristic of the Semitic tongues is their peculiar fitness for prophetic inspiration and for profound symbolical import—this is their special character. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z How it came about is not known, but it is certain that, about 2200 years b.c., a purely Semitic dynasty occupied the throne of the chief ruler in Babylonia. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Hence the relations of Semitic and Hamitic still require many investigations in detail, for which the works of Reinisch and Basset have merely built up a basis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The sacrifice of the heir to the throne and of the king himself in his purple to avert the anger of the sun-god was not unknown in Semitic rites. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z The old language retained the upper hand, and developed; and the ruling tribe, the Semitic Elamites, were amalgamated with the ancient population. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z We have seen that he rejects the extra-mundane God of Semitic derivation, adopted by historical Christianity. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z He lived in a “great house,” ê-gala in Akkadian, êkallu in Semitic Babylonian, and there is hardly any doubt that the people looked upon him as a great high-priest, and often as being himself divine. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Consequently, these “dialects” differ more strongly from each other than, e.g. the Semitic languages do between themselves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z It was this violent change, which brought to a Semitic tribe liberation for its fellow Semites. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Such traits are also more than outweighed by the licentious worship of Mylitta, in which the sensual elements of the Semitic character are seen in all their coarseness. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Like the old Persian cuneiform this is borrowed from a Semitic pattern. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z This would make Elam to be simply the first Semitic colony, as Prof. Scheil has already suggested. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z There is no question that the northernmost Hamitic languages have preserved best the original wealth of inflections which reminds us so strongly of the formal riches of southern Semitic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Thus in many Semitic writings only the consonants of words are indicated. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z It is clear that these legends formed an ancient common possession of the Semitic tribes of the lands of the Euphrates and Tigris. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The chief city of the Parthians lay on the Tigris in the midst of a Semitic population. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z The bilingual version, however, differs very much in style from that in Semitic only, and seems to lack the poetical form which characterizes the latter. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z The Latin element still predominates, both in type and tongue: but Semitic, Aryan, and even Turanian strains are all present. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Semitic C is another good course—only two lectures a week, and you can pass it with a few evenings of cramming. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z But, strangely enough, the Babylonians were not reckoned in the generations of Shem, although, as we know perfectly well, the Chaldæans were Semitic, and spoke a Semitic language closely resembling Hebrew. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The Asiatic-Phrygian worship thus evolved was further modified by contact with the Syrians and Phoenicians, so that it acquired strong Semitic characteristics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z It was to all appearance with the Semitic dynasty of Ḫammurabi that the change from non-Semitic to Semitic predominance took place. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z So that although it is vaguely possible that his moral courage and other mental features were of Caucasian origin, in the main he was essentially Semitic in character, patriarchal in principle, and humanistic in spirit. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Arabia is in Africa, but the Arabs are not Africans; they belong to the Semitic race, like the Jews, and the Koran embodies Jewish and other Semitic traditions. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z This cursive writing of the Western Semitic nations has not, however, arisen out of the cuneiform symbols, but out of the hieratic writing of the Egyptians. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The relation of the Semitic languages to each other cannot be discussed here, but we may arrange them in the chronological order of the extant literature as follows:—2 xvi 1. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z When all was ready, the Sun-god, called by the usual Semitic name of Šamaš, appointed the time for the coming of the catastrophe. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z The genius of the whole Semitic race was centred in Mohammed. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Like the Semitic verb, the Indo-European verb seems primarily to have denoted relation only, and to have been attached as an attribute to the subject. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Living under different conditions, the Semitic nations attained to different degrees of civilization. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The word, from its root, seems to be of Semitic origin, but I do not venture to settle this question off-hand; let the wise men decide. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z This text begins, as would be expected from the hand of a patriotic scribe, with the towns and cities of his own land, in two columns, Akkadian, and the Semitic equivalent. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Nevertheless there was in this Semitic Puritan, as there is in almost every Arab, a certain rugged vein of poetry—the wild song of freedom—that bursts out here and there. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z The Semitic family of speech is therefore a much more characteristic type of the inflexional languages than is the Indo-European. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The most probable supposition is that it was the language of the ancient population of the land about the lower course of the two streams, which afterwards became subjected to Semitic immigrants. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Their deluge was the Roman Invasion, when, in a good hour for humanity, Latin superseded Semitic civilization, and the cruel gods of Sidon bowed before the young and beautiful gods of Rome. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z In accordance with the general rule, the consonants of words borrowed from the Sumerian were often sharpened when transferred to Semitic Babylonian, hence the form šapattum instead of šabattum, though the latter is also found. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Some were born in Geneva, others in France; not unlike a Semitic tribe, they roamed about Switzerland, Holland, Germany, England. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z This symbolic use of the vowels, which is the purest application of the principle of flexion, is far less extensively carried out in the Indo-European than in the Semitic languages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The languages in question I certainly consider to be Semitic. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z One wonders if the descendants of the Carthaginians became identified with the other great Semitic people, and passed as Jews. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z To begin with Shem, the name of the ancestor of the Semitic race. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z The spoken language of the Egyptians was Semitic, but it had little in common with the Hebrew, for Joseph conversed with his brothers by means of an interpreter. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z Mr. Zangwill, in his swelling Semitic enthusiasm, embraced the Jews in the British Government in the same category with the Jews of the Hungarian and Russian Bolshevik governments. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z He was author of numerous linguistic works on the Sanscrit, Bengali, Hindustani, Persian, Egyptian, and Semitic languages. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z Now, the prevailing forms of Semitic religion outraged these feelings at every point. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z His son, however, bears the Semitic name of Durmaḫ-îlāni, “the bond with the gods.” The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Construct′iveness, the faculty of constructing; Construct′ure.—Construct state, in Hebrew and other Semitic languages, the state of a noun depending on another noun, which in Aryan languages would be in the genitive case—e.g. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z I met Jews who sought to conceal their origin, visible as it was on their Semitic brows, among whom some were believers, others complete sceptics. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z After having occupied for twenty years the chair of Semitics at the university of Leipzig, he retired to Prostnitz. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z Through their agency the emotional nature of the Semitic race now found expression in a form of religious worship loftier by far than any that had ever arisen among men. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z It formed part, as in Arabic at the present day, of many a greeting, and is one of the most noteworthy points of the Semitic languages. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Here the term “family” must be taken in a far more elastic sense than when applied, for instance, to the Indo-European, Semitic or Eastern Polynesian divisions of mankind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Among them are grammars, vocabularies, and reading-books, as well as interlinear or parallel translations of Sumerian texts in the Semitic language of Babylon and Assyria. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z No doubt can then exist as to the old Egyptian language being Semitic; but the opposition between the Semitic languages and the Indo-European ones is by no means so great as was formerly supposed. Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-12T02:00:27.427Z The religions of the Semitic nations who surrounded ancient Israel were intensely emotional in character, and their gods were gods of pleasure and pain. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Here, being of Semitic race, and helped by his God, he obtained the favour of the keeper of the prison, whose trusted deputy he became. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z Indeed the three groups present at least as wide divergences as are found to exist between the Semitic and Hamitic linguistic families. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z The Semitic dialects of Babylonia and Assyria differed very slightly from one another, and they are therefore called by the common name of Assyrian. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The Governor of that place was a tout à fait civilisé Young Turk, sedentary, Semitic, and very disagreeable. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Egyptian monuments prove that the early people and language of Egypt were strongly impregnated with Semitic elements. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Surely, it might be objected, the Semitic ruler of Egypt would have liked Joseph none the worse if he had retained his hair, and thus proclaimed his nationality, as it were, on this occasion. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z “These things are considered obstacles,” he said, resting on one he named for the ancient Semitic god B’aal. City Room: With Big, Heavy Rocks, a Man Turns a Nuissance Into a Niche 2011-08-14T21:58:35Z Assyrian belongs to the northern group of Semitic languages, being more closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic than it is to Arabic or Ethiopic. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Turn to the map of the Semitic world at the beginning of the book and make a very simple copy of it, according to the following directions: Mark the two great rivers in the east. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z Our Semitic friends linger in the vicinity of the door that leads to the mess hall and kitchen, especially about meal time. Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man 2011-07-26T02:00:15.197Z The Pharaoh upon the throne was of the same race as himself, and he and all Semitic foreigners in the land, including his father and brethren, were dependent on the same state of things continuing. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z For the people of the Semitic race on the other hand, the surpassing wonder was their own selves—their minds turned to contemplating their own nature. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z The main bulk of the Assyrian population was Semitic, and the common language of the country was Semitic also. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Look at the map of the Semitic world. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z The Semitic element in this Greek goddess and her cult first demand attention. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Judging from the inscriptions, however, Sumero-Akkadian goes back to a date much earlier than the earliest Semitic, but it was to all appearance hardly used after the period of the dynasty of Ḫammurabi. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z It is strange how very often we find the Christianity of Teutonic people nearer in observed facts to the faiths of Semitic peoples than to the Christianity of the Celts. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z When the name and worship of Istar were passed on to the Semitic peoples of the West, the anomaly led to more than one change in her character. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Look at the map of the Semitic world and find Persia in the East. Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students 2011-08-05T02:00:47.727Z But all this may probably be regarded as little more than the Semitic colouring of a ritual and a belief which exist among Indo-European peoples, quite apart from Phoenican influence. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z As a matter of fact, the Semitic Babylonian form of the name approaches even nearer than the celebrated Assyriologist then thought, for it is given in the bilingual texts as Uru. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z They speak Arabic; but the Druses are not considered by ethnologists to belong to the Semitic family. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Though the syllabary is essentially of Sumerian origin there is much in it which is traceable to a Semitic source. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Jake said with a Yankee wink, followed by his Semitic smile. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z It is not unlikely that the ancestors of the Greeks possessed these forms of folk-lore previous to their contact with the Semitic races, and their borrowing of the very marked Semitic features in the festivals. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z The names were placed before the Semitic section of the Congress of Orientalists referred to, as recent discoveries, which were certain as far as they went, their identification being a matter of opinion. The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia 2012-02-02T03:04:35.567Z It must be remembered that Hindoo sacrifice has nothing but the name in common with the sacrifices which are a distinctive part of the religion of every Semitic race. Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India 2011-07-12T02:00:31.917Z Many of the values given to the characters as well as many of their ideographic meanings are Semitic. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Strongly Semitic naturally, they became still more so each time they were brightened up by his good-natured boyish smile. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z Among the Semitic races with whose goddess of love Aphrodite was thus connected the deity had many names. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z In his place sat a stout man of middle-age with a sanguine countenance of Semitic type, shrewd and hard but good-humoured. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z The oldest literatures of the world, at all events, whether Aryan or Semitic, embody a religion of a much higher type than ancestor worship. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The Semitic scribes of a later day were as fond of deriving Semitic words from Sumerian as our own etymologists used to be of deriving Teutonic words from Latin, Greek, or Hebrew. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Finally he paused in front of a girl with a superabundance of pitch-black side bangs and with a pert, ill natured, pretty face of the most strikingly Semitic cast in the whole gathering. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z If Aphrodite retains any traces of an elemental origin, they show chiefly in that part of her legend which is peculiarly Semitic in colour. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z This deeper side of man, his relation to one God, his duty and his responsibilities beyond this ordinary life, we owe not to the Greeks, but to the legacy of the Semitic race. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Nor was the habit of observing such festivals peculiar to the Aryan or the Semitic race. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Thus the purely Semitic sabattu 'Sabbath,' from sabâtu 'to rest,' is derived from the two Sumerian words sa 'heart' and bat 'to complete,' and interpreted to mean 'a day of rest for the heart.' A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z It is 21 volumes of Akkadian, a dead Semitic language with several dialects, and it took 90 years to complete. Newspaper review 2011-06-07T04:24:36Z M. Maspero conceives, once more, that the Egyptians were "proto-Semitic," ethnologically related to the people of Eastern Asia, and the grammar of their language has Semitic affinities. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Also, biblical references left the impression that the term “Assyrian” was synonymous with most Semitic languages in antiquity, and so it is often used still to describe the academic field of study. After 90 Years, a Dictionary of an Ancient World 2011-06-06T20:34:59Z In 1809 he absconded from the cathedral choir school at Brixen and made his way to Salzburg, where he supported himself by private teaching while he studied theology, the Semitic languages, and history. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z At his side stood his wife, a colourless reflection of himself, as the wife was of the husband in the Semitic family on earth. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z It is seen in the blurring of arbitrary lines where the Semitic script of Arabic and Kurdish tangles with the Latin script of Turkish across the borders with Syria and Iraq. Can Turkey Unify the Arabs? 2011-05-28T23:20:32Z But invaders, Semitic, Ethiopian and Greek, brought in some of their own ideas. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Even the knowledge of the Semitic orient, of its antiquities and customs, seems, if we may say so without offence to transatlantic vanity, a little threadbare. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Of course a single poster doesn't turn an Arab Spring into a Summer of Semitic Love. An Arab Spring in Their Step 2011-05-13T22:05:43Z Wherever it was possible a solar character was given to them; in other cases the general characteristics of the Semitic deity were attached to the old Sumerian divinity. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Before that, as the history of Solomon’s foreign marriages demonstrates, they were a raceless chaos, the Semitic element predominating. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Special changes are introduced—now, as in the case of worship of the solar disk by a heretic king; earlier, as in the prevalence of Set-worship, perhaps by Semitic invaders.**** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z It is a Semitic language resembling Aramaic and Hebrew as well as Arabic. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z He was thoroughly versed in most of the Semitic tongues, and spoke and wrote almost all the European languages with facility. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Consequently most of the words and grammatical forms found in Assyrian recur in one or other of the Semitic idioms. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The seer went back to the earliest ages of Semitic Babylonia. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The Kabindas say that these "Semitic Negroes" were specially created for the punishment of other unscrupulous dealers by their ruinous competition in trade. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Of the ancient Semitic tongues only two remain living languages, that is, the Arabian, and, in a modified form, the Syrian. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z The tender sentimental raptures, the poetic emotions, the dim aspirations, which Isabel revealed to Roland, would have been as unintelligible as the Semitic languages to George. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z An official religion came into existence which consisted of a Semitic form of faith grafted upon a Sumerian root. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z But with the rise of Semitic supremacy the king himself became a god. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Belief in the presence of a Semitic people in the interior of S.E. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Trade and finance were still largely Semitic, Tyre and Sidon as of old were the great Mediterranean ports and Semitic shipping plied upon the seas. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z He would study the Semitic languages; all of them. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z The result was a fusion of Sumerian and Semitic religious ideas. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The Semitic Baal was a lord or king of human shape and passions. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It follows that the leavening element, by which the southern Negro populations have been diversely modified throughout the Bantu lands, could have been drawn only from the Hamitic and Semitic peoples of the north-east. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z AND now we can tell of the Hebrews, a Semitic people, not so important in their own time as in their influence upon the later history of the world. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Greek culture, it is true, was not the mere copy of that of Semitic Asia, as scholars once believed, but the germs of it had come in large measure from an Oriental seed-plot. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z For the sake of convenience the many varieties of language have been grouped into three great divisions, i. e., the Aryan, the Semitic, and the Turanian. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z Centuries before En-lil of Nippur had developed into a Semitic Bel, an earthly dwelling-house had been provided for him which became in time the temple of a god. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z No explanation has been offered of their brachycephaly, which is all the more difficult to account for, inasmuch as it is characteristic neither of the aboriginal Negro nor of the intruding Hamitic and Semitic elements. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Of all the Semitic states and cities that had flourished in the world five centuries before only one little country remained free under native rulers. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z If these were the only instances of Semitic tincture, they would be enough to prove the early presence of the Semitic Phœnicians in Greece. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z It contained the germs of all the Turanian, as well as the Aryan and Semitic forms of speech. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z The Babylonians of history were Semitic, and Abraham the Hebrew had sprung from a Babylonian city. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Authorities are undecided whether to class Hausa with the Semitic or the Hamitic family, or in an independent group by itself, and it must be admitted that some of its features are extremely puzzling. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z They were assimilated just as before them the Semitic conquerors of the Sumerians had been assimilated. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z One of these is the Semitic origin of the Greek alphabet. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z The usually accepted chronology would not allow sufficient time for the diversity in the Semitic family, to say nothing of the time required for the development of the three general classes. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z The anthropomorphism of Semitic Babylonia is reflected in the anthropomorphism of the Israelites. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Thus, although the general view is to regard the Sumerians as the autochthones and the Semites as the later intruders in Babylonia, the Semitic character of the Sumerian gods points to an opposite conclusion. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The trade of the world was in Semitic hands. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z We now know fairly well what ideas, usages, and proper names have an Aryan stamp upon them, and what, on the other hand, belong rather to the Semitic world. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z Semitic, pertaining to one of the families of nations, or languages, and so named from its members being ranked as the descendants of Shem. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z The Baal of historical Semitic religion was a sky-god, despite Robertson Smith's ingenious philological attempts to find a terrestrial source for him.246.Cf. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The first great wave of Semitic migration from Arabia is placed in the fourth millennium B.C., Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z It was these Semitic shepherds and certain more negroid people from southern Persia, the Elamites, who were the first nomads to come into close contact with the early civilizations. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Cyprus, in fact, lay midway between Greece and Phœnicia, and was shared to the last between an Aryan and a Semitic population. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z By this means we are able to detect dittographies in the Greek and variants in the original Semitic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The “tablet of wisdom” was transferred to him, and she became a Semitic Baalat, the mere reflection of her “lord.” The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The first great influx of Semitic nomads is conjectured to have reached Babylonia, not from the south, but from the north-west, after traversing the Syrian coast lands. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z A.D. onward for six centuries is the story of how these Aryan peoples grew to power and enterprise and how at last they subjugated the whole Ancient World, Semitic, Ægean and Egyptian alike. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z But what happened after the Semitic traders had been expelled from Greek waters?—for expelled they were, though, perhaps, far later from some remote and unexplored points than we usually imagine. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Original Language.—That the Book of Enoch was written in Semitic is now accepted on all hands, but scholars are divided as to whether the Semitic language in question was Hebrew or Aramaic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The Sumerian “queen of Hades” gave place to a Semitic Bel. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z By this route the primitive Hamito-Semitic populations may have moved either westwards into Africa, or, as has also been suggested, eastwards into Asia, where in the course of ages the Semitic type became specialised. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z In form the Aryan peoples were altogether victorious; but the struggle of Aryan, Semitic and Egyptian ideas and methods was continued long after the sceptre was in Aryan hands. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z The two nations who were not Semitic, the Persians and the Ottoman Turks, are almost wholly imbued with the Semitic spirit. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The exact position of Anzan is still disputed, but it probably included originally the site of Susa and was distinguished from it only when Susa became the seat of a Semitic government. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z The apotheosis of the king is thus coeval with the rise of Semitic domination in Babylonia. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The last great Semitic migration was the most widespread of all. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z These Semitic conquerors never assimilated themselves with the Egyptians; they were always regarded with hostility as foreigners and barbarians; and they were at last expelled by a popular uprising about 1600 B.C. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z The brothers Chesterton, Mr. Maurice Baring, and Mr. Belloc sat up all night in the wagon-restaurant consuming beer enormously and conversing upon immortality and whether it extends to Semitic and Oriental persons. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z The manager was an undeveloped little person—as if some hereditary blight had nipped him in the bud—distinctly Semitic in all his traits. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Then the god is transformed into a Semitic Baal, and with the political rise of the neighbouring city of Babylon is degraded into an attendant and retainer of the mightier god. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z From their physical characters it could be clearly seen that they did not belong to the Semitic race. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z But the Semites had come into Sumeria for good and all, the two races assimilated and the Babylonian Empire became Semitic in its language and character. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z The cruel and bloody sacrifices and the preponderance of the Sun-worship have a Semitic tinge. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z More important still is the application of Semitic study to elucidate the Gospels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The Sumerian population continued to exist in Babylonia after the Semitic occupation of the country, and Sumerian animism continued to exist as well. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Instances of Berberised Arabs occur, but are extremely rare, whereas the Berbers have not only everywhere accepted the Koran, but whole tribes have become assimilated in speech, costume, and usages to the Semitic intruders. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Our space is too limited here to tell of the comings and goings of the armies of the Egyptians and of the various Semitic powers of Asia Minor, Syria and Mesopotamia. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z The students spoke Akkadian, a Semitic language unrelated to Sumerian. An Exhibition That Gets to the (Square) Root of Sumerian Math 2010-11-22T22:35:00Z It was founded between 3000 BCE and 2600 BCE by a West Semitic people or possibly the Canaanites, the common ancestors of Palestinians, Lebanese, many Syrians and Jordanians, and many Jews. Ten reasons why East Jerusalem does not belong to Israel 2010-03-23T13:24:00Z Such doubts, however, are set at rest by an examination of the proper names found in the Babylonian contracts of the early Semitic period, more especially in those of the age of Khammurabi. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The earliest Semitic wave was traceable in Babylonia, but, as seen above, opinions differ as to its origin and date. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z These would be the names of certain barbaric tribes, armed with iron weapons and using horse-chariots, who were becoming a great affliction to the Ægean and Semitic civilizations on the northern borders. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Could be: Eli is the Semitic word for a supreme being. 2010-01-14T20:05:00Z His bias is evident from his cavalier dismissal of earlier Semitic tribes. 2010-01-05T19:03:00Z In other parts of the Semitic world the high priest similarly preceded the king. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In fact little Hugh's crucifixion appears rather to have served as an excuse for the wrongful persecution of the Semitic race than for the proper administration of the law irrespective of creed. Cathedral Cities of England THE fall of Assyria and Babylon were only the first of a series of disasters that were to happen to the Semitic peoples. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Two of the greatest religions of the world, Christianity and Islam, are Semitic in origin, as well as Judaism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The other man hailed from Bavaria—a tall, thin, large-headed individual, with wide-set eyes and a nose and lower lip that hinted of Semitic ancestry. H.M.S. —— But the form was still chaotic and immature, suitably symbolised by beings, half human and half bestial, which had descended to Semitic Babylonia from Sumerian animism, and whose memory was kept alive by religious art. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z One came whose art men’s dread of are repressed: Mangled and writhing limb he lulled to rest, And stingless left the old Semitic curse; Him, too, for these blest gifts did Zeus amerce? Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine In the seventh century B.C. it would have seemed as though the whole civilized world was to be dominated by Semitic rulers. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Some authorities hold that Egyptian civilization came from Babylonia, and that the so-called Hamitic languages are older and less specialized members of the Semitic family. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Mixed with these proto-Armenians, there was an important Semitic element of Assyrian and Hebrew origin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" But the work of preparation was a long one, and not until it was finished could the gods of Semitic Babylonia be born. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Thus the Aramaic languages may be geographically defined as the Semitic dialects originally current in Mesopotamia and the regions extending south-west from the Euphrates to Palestine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" They ruled the great Assyrian empire and they had conquered Egypt; Assyria, Babylon, Syria were all Semitic, speaking languages that were mutually intelligible. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z In the Semitic East it is an old belief that a successful fast in the wilderness of forty days and nights gives power over the Djinns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" After the Arab and Seljuk invasions, there was a large emigration of Aryan and Semitic Armenians to Constantinople and Cilicia; and all that remained of the aristocracy was swept away by the Mongols and Tatars. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Henceforward he is acknowledged in heaven as well as in earth, the supreme Bel or Baal of Semitic faith, the father of gods and men. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z His inscriptions are written in cuneiform, in Assyrian, whilst those of his successors are in cuneiform, in their own language, which is neither Aryan nor Semitic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" No Semitic people had founded an empire now for more than a thousand years. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z He made various learned contributions to the study of Indo-European and Semitic languages, and also of the gipsy language, but his special field was the Italian dialects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" There is a large Semitic influence traceable in Armenian due to their early contact with the Syriac-speaking peoples to the south and east of them, and later to the Arab conquest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The same process had been followed in the Semitic translations which were added to the incantatory texts. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z That the term 'waters' had a special significance for the inhabitants of a water-formed land is evident by the fact that the Semitic equivalent of Ea is Enki, which means 'lord of earth'. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The Mongolian nomads were, in fact, playing a role towards the Aryanized civilizations of Europe and Persia and India that the Aryans had played to the Ægean and Semitic civilizations ten or fifteen centuries before. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Some connexion between Babylonia and China is generally admitted, and all Indian alphabets seem traceable to a Semitic original borrowed in the course of commerce from the Persian Gulf. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The Semitic world affords many examples of the belief that a man’s religion was part of his political connexion and that the change of nationality involved change of cult. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" It is instructive to observe what a contrast there was in this respect between the official religion of Babylonia and that of the more purely Semitic Israelites. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z These goddesses were ultimately all absorbed by Ishtar, the Semitic name of the love and mother goddess. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The Jewish mind assimilated very readily with the Arab, and for a time the two Semitic races worked together through the medium of Arabic. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z She assumes various local forms in the old Semitic world, and this has led to consequent fusion and identification with the deities of other nations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The earliest inhabitants are believed to have been of the Semitic race. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli In Babylonia, however, the local deities were for the most part of Sumerian origin, and in spite of their Semitic colouring and dress not unfrequently retained their old Sumerian names. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z To the Semitic stock belong the Arabs, who form a considerable portion of the population in Egypt and along the north coast, while a portion of the inhabitants of Abyssinia is of the same race. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide In vivid contrast to this tale of retrogression, the Semitic tradition had risen again from subjugation and obscurity after a thousand years of darkness. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z In politics these races have been less successful in modern times, but the Semitic states of Babylonia and Assyria were once the principal centres for the development and distribution of civilization. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Arabic language belongs to the Semitic dialects, among which it is distinguished for its richness, softness, and high degree of development. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The hierarchical arrangement followed from the Semitic conception of divinity. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Although this cannot be said to be proved, the studies, linguistic and archaeological, of Semitic scholars have shown it to be probable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" So it was that the systematic accumulation and criticism of facts which was first begun by the Greeks was resumed in this astonishing renascence of the Semitic world. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z One hypothesis supposes that the shores of the Mediterranean were originally inhabited by a homogeneous race neither Aryan nor Semitic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" More than this, in the course of centuries, their physical characteristics have departed from those of their Semitic cousins in the East, and they have become assimilated in blood with their European neighbors. Races and Immigrants in America The fact points to an age when Sumerian animism had already been succeeded by Semitic Baalism; the spirit or ghost had become a god in human shape, who begat children and required an envoy. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The nation thus formed, never a nation in the strict sense of the word, was distinctively and thoroughly Semitic in character and language, and has remained unchanged to the present day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" It is quite possible that the earliest civilization of China was not Mongolian at all any more than the earliest civilization of Europe and western Asia was Nordic or Semitic. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z This outburst, at a moment when no new financial scandals or other illustrations of Semitic demoralization and domination were before the public, has never been fully explained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" And the faces that I met under freshman caps were certainly Semitic, to a large percentage. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew It was no longer the medicine-man, but the priest of the Semitic deity, who recited the incantation for the suppliant and the sufferer. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z All authorities agree in declaring the race to be Semitic in the broadest ethnological signification of that term, but some thought they saw in this division of the race an indication of a dual origin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The Semitic world had been submerged rather than replaced. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Again, the Slavonic Enoch goes back undoubtedly in parts to a Semitic original, though most of it was written by a Greek Jew in Egypt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" A flash of brotherly affection and gratitude lighted Struli's Semitic eyes, and he took the other into his arms, and pressed him to his heart. Yiddish Tales The Semitic Baal was indeed like a divine king; lord and master though he was of the cultivated soil and of all that it produced, he was content only with a share. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z ARABS, the name given to that branch of the Semitic race which from the earliest historic times inhabited the south-western portion of the Arabian peninsula. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" And the early Semitic conquerors were sufficiently akin in spirit to the Sumerians to take over the religion of the Mesopotamian civilization they subjugated without any profound alteration. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z This peculiar physiognomy was, on its moral side, not essentially Jewish or even Semitic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" He had rather a Semitic countenance, and a very deep, manly voice. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery And from this the further inference is obvious: Arabian and West Semitic “Sabaism,” with its worship of the heavenly bodies, was not indigenous. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Somali and other Ethnology. elements, generally described under the collective racial name of Hamitic, are clearly traceable; but the inland Arabs still present the nearest approach to the primitive Semitic type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Kindred Celtic peoples were pressing southward into Spain and coming into contact not only with the heliolithic Basque people who still occupied the country but with the Semitic Phœnician colonies of the sea coast. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Thus the “Semitic domination,” as it was afterwards called, became every day more strongly accentuated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" This paganism," he says, "this cult of form, was naught else but the love of that noble nature from which the solitary Semitic estrangements had alienated hitherto the spirit of man in such bitter opposition. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII The primitive Semitic Baal—the “lord” of a specific plot of earth or tribal territory—became a moon-good or an evening star, while his wife was embodied in the sun. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The racial distinction between the Chaldaeans and the Babylonians proper seems to have existed until a much later date, although it is almost certain that the former were originally a Semitic people. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The empire he founded decayed after two centuries, and after one inundation of Elamites a fresh Semitic people, the Amorites, by degrees established their rule over Sumeria. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Although her myth and cult were essentially Semitic, she soon became Hellenized and was admitted to a place among the deities of Olympus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" If he really was a Semitic totem, it may, perhaps, be argued that his prevalence in connection with Apollo is the result of a Semitic leaven in Hellenism. Custom and Myth New Edition It was really due to the fusion of the Sumerian and Semitic elements in the official Babylonian religion. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z As already indicated, the Chaldaeans were most probably a Semitic people. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" THE Egyptians had never submitted very willingly to the rule of their Semitic shepherd kings and about 1600 A.D. a vigorous patriotic movement expelled these foreigners. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z The most distinctively oriental title of the Greek Aphrodite is Urania, the Semitic “queen of the heavens.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Turning to India from the Mediterranean basin, and the Aryan, Semitic, and Egyptian tribes on its coasts, we find that the mouse was the sacred animal of Rudra. Custom and Myth New Edition Zi is used here in its Semitic sense of “life” in the abstract, the position given to it as the first of the divine names and qualities bestowed on Merodach is significant. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Garth could not be sure whether it was Egyptian, Turkish, Arabian, or Semitic. The Gray Mask About 2750 B.C. a great Semitic leader, Sargon, had conquered the whole Sumerian land and was master of all the world from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z But, although her connexion with the moon has practically disappeared, in all other aspects a development from the Semitic divinity is clearly manifest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Even after Greek and Roman influences were strongly felt, hymnology retained this traditional Semitic character and pagan lyrics were held in suspicion. Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries It was thus the result of the union of two conceptions which I believe to have been respectively Sumerian and Semitic. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In the Semitic patriarchal family, only the patriarch himself, or at best a few of his sons, practice polygamy, the others must be satisfied with one wife. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State On arriving, however, at manhood, he did not feel inclined to take orders; accepted the place of usher at a school, and soon distinguished himself by linguistic studies, especially on the Semitic languages. A Short History of French Literature In verses 9, 19 the manifest corruptions may be explicable from a Semitic background. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" We now understand how the Phoenicians, whose ancestors arrived in the second Semitic migration, came to call their land “Canaan.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The process was facilitated by the changes undergone at Eridu by the magical texts themselves, even before the days of Semitic influence. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z See also "Descriptive Ethnology," where the Semitic affinities are very strongly brought out. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science In a short time they had taken from the Aryans all the principal old Semitic lands—Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Assyria and Babylonia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The latter was a native of small stature and very black hue, with features of an aquiline, almost Semitic cast. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising The Semitic people held in high regard the power to read riddles, and this power, as in the story of Solomon, blends with the higher intelligence which makes for wisdom. The Handbook of Conundrums The text is bilingual in both Sumerian and Semitic, and therefore probably goes back to Sumerian times. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It is to the Semitic race that God has been most liberal in his gift of inspiration. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science It would have been a great advantage for the solidity of the Arabian empire if it had confined itself within the limits of those old Semitic lands, with perhaps the addition of Egypt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" It may be said that they would be a much pleasanter people to live with if they observed the Semitic regulations and observances of their hated Jewish fellow-citizens. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 The expulsion of the Hyksos conquerors of Egypt, while it brought oppression and slavery to their Semitic kindred who were left behind, inaugurated an era of conquest and glory for the Egyptians themselves. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The god of Khu-n-Aten, in fact, has much in common with the Semitic Baal. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The Chaldeans were politically subjugated by the Semitic Assyrians, but they retained their religious predominance; and until a comparatively late period existed as a learned and priestly caste. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science The simplest form being that of the 3rd person, it is best arranged like the corresponding tense in Semitic grammars, beginning with that person. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Although, therefore, a certain advance was made towards a classification of languages by the Semitic scholars of the seventeenth century, yet this partial advance became in other respects an impediment. Lectures on The Science of Language What this language was is still uncertain, though the Hittite proper names which occur on the monuments of Egypt and Assyria show that it was neither Semitic nor Indo-European. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments On the other hand, between Aten and the Semitic Baal there was a wide and essential difference. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Their connection with the ancient Semitic and Turanian revelations of Asia is unquestionable. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science There is no trace of the Semitic imperfect in Egyptian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Apes are called, in Hebrew, koph, a word without an etymology in the Semitic languages, but nearly identical in sound with the Sanskrit name of ape, kapi. Lectures on The Science of Language He found there men of Semitic blood, like himself, and speaking a Semitic language. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Merodach is invested by Khammurabi with all the attributes of a supreme Semitic Baal. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The early life of the "Father of the Faithful" belongs to the time when Turanian and Semitic elements were mingled in the Euphratean valley. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science The pseudo-participle seems, by its inflexion, to have been the perfect of the original Semitic conjugation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" This is considerably mixed with Semitic elements, probably imported from Syria. Lectures on The Science of Language In place of the Semitic shalat, “ruler,” the title by which their first leaders had been known, they had borrowed the Egyptian title of Pharaoh. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Like the Semitic Baal, he is the father of his people, the mighty king who rules the world and occupies the foremost place in the council of the gods. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z They not improbably represent in more or less altered forms the most primitive stock of language from which both the Semitic and Japhetic groups have branched. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Coptic is strongly impregnated with Greek words adopted late; moreover, a certain number of Semitic loan-words flowed into Egyptian at all ages, and especially from the 16th century b.c. onwards, displacing earlier words. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In the Semitic family these two constituent elements are even more palpable than in Sanskrit and Greek. Lectures on The Science of Language The reason of this lay in the fact that the Hittites were intruders in the Semitic territory of Syria. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Babylonian religion could not wholly repudiate its origin and parentage; the superstructure might be Semitic, but its basis was Sumerian. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Max Müller, in his lectures on the Science of Religion, rejects the ordinary division into natural and revealed, and adopts a threefold grouping, corresponding to the great division of languages into Turanian, Aryan, and Semitic. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science In common with the Semitic languages, the Berber languages of North Africa, and the Cushite languages of North-East Africa, Egyptian of all periods possesses grammatical gender, expressing masculine and feminine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" They are clearly written in a Semitic language. Lectures on The Science of Language But before the alphabet was communicated to Greece by the Phœnician traders, it had already been adopted by their Semitic kinsmen in Western Asia. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments Moreover, there was another side to the worship of Istar which bears indirect testimony to the Semitic origin of her cult at Erech. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z These documents carry us back to a time when the Turanian religions had not yet been separated from the Semitic. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Their connexion with Semitic and Egyptian, therefore, remains at present an obscure though probable hypothesis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In very early times this Arabic branch was transplanted to Africa, where, south of Egypt and Nubia, on the coast opposite Yemen, an ancient Semitic dialect has maintained itself to the present day. Lectures on The Science of Language These Accadians, as they are usually termed, left behind them a considerable amount of literature, which was highly prized by the Semitic Babylonians and Assyrians. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments As far back as we can trace the history of Semitic religion, whether in Babylonia, in Canaan, or in Arabia, its fundamental conception is always the same; the gods are human, and men are divine. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Before entering upon it, I propose to devote one chapter to the answers to three questions which concern the whole doctrine of revealed religion, whether Semitic, Turanian, or Aryan. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science The Egyptians proper are not, and so far as we can tell never were, Semitic in physical feature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" It is impossible to mistake a Semitic language; and what is most important—it is impossible to imagine an Aryan language derived from a Semitic, or a Semitic from an Aryan language. Lectures on The Science of Language The inventors of the cuneiform system of writing had been a people who preceded the Semites in the occupation of Babylonia, and who spoke an agglutinative language utterly different from that of their Semitic successors. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments He had been a ghost in Nippur before he was transformed into a Semitic god. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Lying in and near this area are other nations—as the Arabs, the Syrians, the Jews—speaking languages differing in words and structure—the Semitic tongues. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science On the other hand, Egyptian is certainly related to Semitic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The Semitic character of these dialects, however, is much less clearly defined, and the exact degree of relationship in which they stand to the Semitic languages, properly so-called, has still to be determined. Lectures on The Science of Language The primitive populations of both Sumir and Accad were related, not to the Semitic race, but to the tribes which continued to maintain themselves in the mountains of Elam down to a late day. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments The process of creation is conceived of under the Semitic form of generation. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The above origins of idolatry and mythology, as stated or implied in the Bible, of course assume that the Semitic monotheistic religion is the primitive one. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Triliteralism is considered the most essential and most peculiar feature of Semitic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Strictly speaking the Aryan and Semitic are the only families of speech which fully deserve that title. Lectures on The Science of Language I notice in the list of subjects taught: Old French, Scandinavian languages and literature, Sanskrit, Zend and Gothic, Hebrew and Semitic languages, and philology. The Story of Chautauqua But he had been a ghost who was associated with the dawn, and he thus became identified in the early Semitic age with the rising sun. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The Mosaic law condemned all these as violations of the holiness of Israel's God, but could not help sanctioning many ordinances and rites of priestly holiness which originated in ancient Semitic usages. Jewish Theology Such verbal resemblances as exist between Coptic and Semitic are largely due to late exchanges with Semitic neighbours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" If we were to expect in them the definite criteria of a genealogical relationship which unites the members of the Aryan and Semitic families of speech, we should necessarily be disappointed. Lectures on The Science of Language Our historic horizon is now quite another thing, since it extends to the Aryan antiquities and to the ancient deposits of Egypt and Mesopotamia which precede all the Semitic traditions. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History But in either case it was a symbol of the world below, and as such became in the Semitic age the garment of the mourner. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In Semitic speech girls were called benoth, and at Carthage the tents in which the worship occurred were termed succoth benoth. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern It will serve to contrast with Coptic grammar on the one hand and Semitic grammar on the other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" This stage is best represented by the Aryan and Semitic families, and the languages belonging to it have sometimes been distinguished by the name of organic or amalgamating. Lectures on The Science of Language Corrected and despatched proofs of Religion, Achaian and Semitic. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) The first and most obvious answer to the question would be, the fact that the older names of the superhuman beings who became the gods of the later creed are not Semitic, but Sumerian. 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