Miscellanies, antiquarian and historical / By F. Sayers.

  • Frank Sayers
Date:
1805
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    might call the native language of the Blacks, the Black language. The word Hebrew, then, whether applied by the moderns to the Jewifh tongue before the capti- vity, or by the Yews themfelves to the newly ac- quired dialect of their nation after the captivity, appears to have had in neither cafe any refer- ence to the origin of thefe languages, but merely to the name of the people, “ Hebrews,” whofe lan- guage it was ufed to fignify. ~ Tt is fomewhat remarkable, that, after the capti- vity, the pure and ancient language of the Old Teftament (which is called by the moderns He- brew) was called by the Jews themfelves (mywx pw) Affyrian, or the holy language ;* but this As the Jews bore a great hatred to their conquerors, they feem to have purpofely denominated their language at this time Hebrew, inftead of Chaldee (as it might have been more properly called), in order to make it appear to have been their original national tongue. * See Lightfoot’s Heb. and Talmud, Exercit. 2d vol. of his works, p. 659. appellation
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