[Avodah] Targumim from Sinai

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From: Zev Sero _zev at sero.name_ (mailto:zev at sero.name) 

> "There are  inscriptions that evidence the earliest use of the language,
> dating from  the tenth century BCE.[--RYG]

That late, huh?  So what did Lavan  speak?

-- 
Zev  Sero                      
 
 
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Lavan spoke whatever language was spoken in Aram Naharaim in his day.   It 
was "Aramaic" in the same sense that the language then spoken by the  
Egyptians was "Egyptian" -- and we know that language was not Arabic.   Lavan's 
Aramaic may have been a Semitic language but it seems to me that we have  no 
way of knowing that one way or another.  Maybe someone here can clarify  that 
point, too.
 
What does "Yagar Sahadusa" mean, anyway?  In Talmudic Aramaic, does it  
mean anything?
 
In Canaan of Avraham's day they definitely spoke [a] Semitic language[s],  
and extant inscriptions prove that, e.g., Akkadian was virtually identical 
to  Biblical Hebrew.
 
--Toby Katz
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