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2007-04-04 13:04:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

they were slaves before the hebrew language existed, so was it aramaic, or what?

2007-04-04 13:10:49 · update #1

yiddish came about in the 900's in Germany. The Hebrews were slaves in 1300 bc.

2007-04-04 13:14:31 · update #2

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A good question, but without any absolute answer. Hebrew, as a language, predates Aramaic. The colloquial language of Jews in the common era was Aramaic. If Abraham was from Ur, one might imagine an ancestral language similar to ancient Chaldean.
From the time of David and Solomon, some 3,000 years ago, to the time of the Babylonian captivity (probably, primarily of the priesthood and intelligentsia), Hebrew was almost certainly the common language. By the time of the second Temple, Aramaic was more common.
To me, some modern Semitic languages seem fairly similar. One can ask for peace with "Salaam Aleikum" or "Shalom Aleichem", Arabic or Hebrew.
But that doesn't really answer your question, for there are few, if any, external references to a "Hebrew" people in Egypt; some scholars equate the "Habiru" with the ancestors of the Jewish people, though most do not today. Perhaps we may never be sure of the language of Goshen.

2007-04-04 13:37:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

there is not any genuine evidence that this ever quite took place. there are various flights of fantasy interior the Bible, so this is in all probability only one extra. that's extra credible than talking snakes that stand erect, a international flood, the sky rolling up as a scroll does, stars falling to earth, pi being 3.00, Jesus being born the two 12 B.C. and 12 A.D., and so on.The Egyptians had no checklist of certainly one of those element. They quite could have recorded that's Ramses II's military replaced into drowned interior the purple Sea because of fact the "10 Commandments" action picture says.

2016-10-21 01:20:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Aramaic.

2007-04-04 13:15:03 · answer #3 · answered by heiko o 1 · 1 0

Hebrew, which I believe is according to the Torah.

2007-04-04 13:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by staisil 7 · 0 0

Er, Hebrew?

2007-04-04 13:08:10 · answer #5 · answered by NC 7 · 0 1

Hebrew. Well, actually Yiddish (Ancient Hebrew).

2007-04-04 13:11:08 · answer #6 · answered by artist0027 3 · 0 3

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