When Daniel was in Babylonia, he spoke Babylonian and understood the culture. So one of the key things in reaching the next generation is understanding the culture you're reaching. Speak in the language they do understand. Young people are more of a digital generation, and ...
By the beginning of the Common Era, Aramaic was the primary colloquial language of Samarian, Babylonian and Galileen Jews, western and intellectual Jews spoke Greek,[citation needed] but a form of so-called Rabbinic Hebrew continued to be used as a vernacular in Judea until it was displaced ...
it was adopted in Babylonia, and therefore has Akkadian origin.Klein writesthat it derives from an Akkadian word reflecting its function as the beginning of the harvest period:
But a substantial amount of Greek terms were adopted through exposure to their trading partners, and those were mostly their Phoenician neighbors, some of whom had actually peopled the Greek isles before the Greeks joined: Semites, who spoke Hebrew, or at least a language very closely related ...
Every occasion gave us the chance to use the local language, which we either spoke or had especially learned for the trip. The effort to use the local language whenever we could clearly made a difference, even though some of my Danish, for example, was a little shaky. In many cases, it...
A unified group of people who spoke the same language and sought to build a city and a tower reaching the heavens.3. The City and the Tower of BabelThe construction project undertaken by the people to make a name for themselves and prevent being scattered over the earth.4. The Plain of...
The Persians, at least originally, spoke Old Persian, a southwestern dialect of Iranian (Median was a northwestern Iranian dialect), and were a nonliterate society. Their language was first written when Darius commanded that a script suitable for this purpose be invented so that he might ...
“Ross Perlin gives us a tour showing the city as a smorgasbord of languages from all over the globe, from its founding (Pieter Stuyvesant spoke Frisian) to right now. Language City makes living in New York feel like travel.”—John McWhorter, author of Nine Nasty Words “This passionate,...
Charles Bliss spoke 6 languages as a child and realized as he grew up that no one really succeeded increating a universal language as Leibniz wanted. Pacifist and humanist, he stressed that "the different languages are one of the greatest obstacles to the understanding of men", and wished to...
The Romans would presumably have been in the dark about the reason for the crowd's anger, whether Paul spoke in Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek. We would add that Paul had mentioned being in the temple previously (Acts 22:17), without causing a riot. It was the seemingly innocuous statement ...