HUM 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phonetics, Fertile Crescent, Semitic People
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They originally inhabited the areas of the fertile crescent. Some languages included phoenician, philistine, arabic, and hebrew. Phoenicians spoke in phonetics , words that sounded how they were spelled. Were animal herders on pasturelands outside the cities. First semitic tribe to create a written language. Hebrew is the language used by jews. Today, people who hate jews are called anti-semitic . Hebrew is the oldest written language still used today. It"s written on parchment, which is animal skin paper. Sheets were glued end to end and rolled in a scroll. Five scrolls that contain history, mythology, and law. They are included in the christian bible as the first five books of the old. Begins with a single god, water, and darkness. God first creates light and separates it from darkness. He creates most of existence in six days. God creates adam and a garden called eden.
