From: bencartwright2@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 2:11:11 AM UTC-5, Yusuf B Gursey wrote:   
   > On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 9:41:31 AM UTC+3, Martin Edwards wrote:   
   > > On 7/14/2016 10:43 AM, Yusuf B Gursey wrote:   
   > > > The Phoenicians called themselves Canaanites   
   > >   
   > > Some argue from this that there really were no "Israelites", they were   
   > > simply inland Phoenicians and spoke more or less the same language.   
   > > Even today the majority in Scotland do not speak Gaelic, and the   
   > > dividing line between "Scots" and English with a Scottish accent is   
   > > unclear. The "Geordie" accent of Northeast England can be pretty   
   > > impenenetrable to the rest of the country.   
   > >   
   > That was probably true. Neverthless the Phoenician cities had   
   > a written standard that is distinguishable from the southern   
   > Canaanites dialects in writing. From Greek transcriptions we know   
   > that Biblical Hebrew in the 3rd cent. BCE preserved phonemic   
   > distinctions from Proto-Semitic not distinguished in the idiom   
   > of the inventors of the alphabet, the Phoenicians.   
   > > --   
   > > Myth, after all, is what we believe naturally. History is what we must   
   > > painfully learn and struggle to remember. -Albert Goldman   
      
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