NMC260Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Old Assyrian Empire, First Babylonian Dynasty, Semitic Languages
5 May 2016
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If we arrange and coalesce the components i noted above we can obtain a more enlightening picture of these amorite-canaanite-phoenician-aramean-hebrew people. They all came from a common semitic stock. We should keep in mind that different human groups, speaking different dialects of the same language, and related genetically, may be sharply separated by modern scholarship in order to distinguish them historically. Amorite: old babylonian period 1st babylonian dynasty neo-babylonian period (626-539) Semitic: old assyrian empire assyrians empire 1365-1050 neo-assyrian empire (911-605) This process then blurs and obscures the biological origins and relationship among people. i. e. for example, i mentioned the identity of the canaanites and. This is based on evidence of language, culture, and religious practices. But if we examine hebrew origins we find that they were the same people also. The difference came about when god performed a memorable work in bringing the descendants of abraham out of bondage in egypt. They then separated themselves from their genetic brothers.
