Comments on: What Is Biblical Greek? https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/what-is-biblical-greek/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Dennis B. Swaney https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/what-is-biblical-greek/#comment-2000447707 Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:33:12 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=81028#comment-2000447707 In reply to Ronald Stiskin.

Correct. Basque is the only surviving PALEO-EUROPEAN language descendant.

]]> By: David Ross https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/what-is-biblical-greek/#comment-2000447654 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:20:37 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=81028#comment-2000447654 Besides the Basque howler, there are additional questions about how we should count Knesian (“Hittite”), since its Anatolian family is usually considered a sister of the Indo-European group as defined by Jones (before Anatolian was first identified, from the Amarna correspondence).
Also re “The language used 87 symbols” – languages do not use symbols as such and, anyway, Linear B also used ideograms for concepts like “wheat” and number. This should read “the script used 87 logograms”.
I get the scent of AI from this article.

]]> By: Ronald Stiskin https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/what-is-biblical-greek/#comment-2000447641 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:46:35 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=81028#comment-2000447641 Did you really mean to write that Basque is an Indo-European language? I thought Basque was one of Europe’s few non-Indo-European languages.

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