Semitic
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Conservator Margalida Munar, papyrologist Leah Mascia, and Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, professor in the Department of Classical, Romance and Semitic Languages, classical philologist, and director of the Oxyrhynchus project, examined the fragile document.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Semitic men and women walked the desert with animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025
“These minor errors indicate that the priest was not a native Greek speaker but likely someone from the region who was raised speaking a Semitic language,” he said in the statement.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
And then shortly after that, we also found some passages written in an ancient Semitic language called Akkadian that is related to Hebrew and Arabic today.
From Scientific American ● May 18, 2023
Though the Semitic biblical cosmos toppled the Aristotelian one, the idea of an eternal, unchanging universe was not expunged completely, enduring even to the twentieth century.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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