Re: Zeus is the Jewish God.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 11:55 am
So what? That doesn't mean that they are related.
Ever heard of traveling and colonization?2. There is Evidence of Mycenaean presence in Canaan
So what? They invented new letters.4. Ω, Ψ, Χ , Π , Ξ not present in Phoenician, but present in Ancient Italy, Venetians.
Yes, a spoken language without writing. That's what all of humanity had before writing was invented, and many people with only spoken languages learned to write from others who had writing.
So 'before' the Phoenician adoption of Greek, How was Greek written? Did they have a spoken language and no written language?
I don't want to get into the question of the historical Homer, but he likely memorized the epics that are attributed to him.Since Homer is before this adoption, what was his means of writing.
That's omitting the vowels, a common practice in writing Semitic languages.Phoenician is a telescoped language, words are compressed into smaller words then they are in Greek, so a long
words like προφήτης becomes נבא .