Re: Re: Back in the Saddle

From: Joy McCann <jmmccann_at_sbcglobal.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:00:26 -0700

Episcopalians are Protestants.

And there's the unfortunate issue of the origins of Anglicanism. After
all, a girl could really lose her head over a hunky monarch, once upon
a time.

--Q.M.

On Apr 12, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Elena Dent wrote:

> Aramaic is the liturgical language of the Melkites.  How may there
> are, I
> haven't a clue.  They're called 'Greek Rite' by the Roman Catholic
> church
> and were, at one time, the only 'church' I'd ever heard of whose
> rites were
> completely accepted by the Catholic Church (notorious for being
> unwilling to
> accept anyone, even Episcopalians)
>
> Elena
>
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> --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Joy McCann
> <jmmccann_at_...> wrote:
> >
> > BTW, can't ANYONE tell me what it was like to have Hebrew
> essentially
> > resurrected as a language after it was nearly dead, used only in
> > temples/synogogues (DO, pls. fix spelling there; thanks). I mean,
> > hadn't Hebrew fallen entirely into rare use--similar to the
> situation
> > with Latin before Vatican II? How do we know how close the
> > pronunciations are now to what they were a few thousand years ago?
> >
> > --J
>
> The fact that Hebrew was used for religious purposes means that it was
> never dead. And being so well maintained, the language should be close
> to how it sounded two thousand years ago. But bear in mind, at that
> early time Hebrew was not the dominant Semetic language of the Middle
> East. (Nor was Arabic, for that matter.) Classical Aramaic was the
> dominant one. Interesting how this language has all but disappeared!
> They say it exists in a few villages in Syria.
>
> An interesting language that has truly died off is Ancient Egyptian.
> We have an idea how it sounded, since we have figured out the
> consonants and consonantal clusters. But the vowels are unknown. So
> our best efforts to reproduce it would have to be off.
>
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> John
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