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Title
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A Religious Encyclopedia
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Creator
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Herzog, J. J.; Schaff, Philip; Jackson, Samuel Macauley; and Schaff, David S.
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Date
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1891
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Description
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Philip Schaff (ed.) in A Religious Encyclopædia (1891), article “Semitic Languages,” states that “the Babylonian-Assyrian disappeared from history in the sixth century B.C., and their language survived only a few centuries,” whereas “the Syriac-Arameans lost their independence in the eighth century B.C., but continued to exist, and their dialect revived in the second century A.D. as a Christian language; and the Jewish Aramaic continued for some centuries (up to the eleventh century A.D.) to be the spoken and literary tongue of the Palestinian and Babylonian Jews.” In other words, as Schaff’s encyclopedia writes, the Assyrian-Babylonian tradition faded early as a historical nationality and language, while the Arameans lived on through enduring Christian and Jewish Aramaic traditions.
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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A Religious Encyclopædia: Or, Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology. Based on the Real-encyklopädie of Herzog, Plitt, and Hauck, Volume 4, Herzog, J. J.; Schaff, Philip; Jackson, Samuel Macauley; and Schaff, David S, p. 2154.
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