Re: Help me find the Hebrews without the Bible

Inabón Yunes wrote:
Now we are getting somewhere!
Am I wrong to suggest that the translators could have been bias to find what they wanted?

Yes. Offer evidence instead of innuendo. Or at least be man enough to admit that you are finding fault with the translators of a language you yourself haven't studied because you are biased to find them so.

Is it not true that we have no idea if the words that they claim to have descipher, have no real connection to the words they try to relate? WHAT A MESS!

No.

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"imipak" <imipak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1b84889c-bf29-4fae-be84-fe89a09b6085@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On May 21, 5:37 pm, Inabón Yunes <bori...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry, you are wrong, again.
I just want the truth, plain and simple.
No one knows Akkadian pronunciation, all they have is a possible meaning of writings. But the pronuntiation is long lost. How can you say what cuneiform scripts sounded like? Much less that a specific writing sounded like anything we know.
About the persians and Akkadians, you got me there, my bad.


We know that Akkadian is a syllabury, so we know those parts of the
syllables that are written down. But you are correct, though - we know
nothing about the parts of the syllables implied, nor the intonation
nor any other aspect of the pronunciation. We can guess, as Akkadian
is a Semitic language and we have a few surviving Semitic languages we
can examine, but the guess is bound to be incorrect to some degree,
with no way of knowing how much or how to correct for errors.
.

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