The Ancient Arameans Outline |
I. Early history
a.
Semitic
people
b.
Migrated to
Syria during the decline of the Hittites (circa 1100 BCE)
c.
Established
small, prosperous kingdoms
a.
Leading
Aramean kingdom
b.
Circa
1000-700 BCE – traded heavily
c.
732 BCE –
conquered by Assyria
a.
Aramean
alphabet adopted by the new Babylonian empire (7th
century BCE)
b.
Common
language of the Near East
c.
Temporarily
replaced Hebrew
i.
Used for some
later books of the Christian Old Testament/Hebrew Tanakh
ii.
Spoken in
Greco-Roman Palestine and Judea
1.
Spoken by
Jesus
a.
Where did the
Arameans settle circa 1100 BCE?
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