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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (10894)	10/29/2001 10:47:24 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 74559

Boy, the economic statistics look just terrible lately... market telling us this is as bad as it gets??? Anecdotes from here tell me NO, bwtfdik... anyone else? DAK

To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (10894)	10/29/2001 7:05:43 PM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74559

Things went both ways... the Greeks got our alphabet and Mishnaic and modern Hebrew seems to be influenced by Indo-European languages presumably both Persian and Greek. There is some word borrowing for example - pardes means orchard in Hebrew and is a Persian word I read.. In English - paradise. Mishnaic and modern Hebrew use present and future verb tenses which are one and the same thing in Semitic languages. The form used appears in Classical Hebrew but more often as a verbal noun. Kohelet is loaded with present tense verbs. I imagine the philosophic ideas also went both ways, with Hebrew being more important earlier and then after the conquests of Alexander, Greek being in the ascendant and becoming the language of the elite in Israel (Aramaic was the vernacular language in that period - think modern India for a comparison). Remember that the Hebrew (not Jewish) speaking world extended out to Carthage (Qart Hadhasha - New City), and even in English we have the word "sack" (saq) for a bag (is it Latin?).... mathematics, astronomy/astrology etc. all started in Mesopotamia and then were developed further in Greece. This maps the gradual evolution where the Western cultural hearth started in Mesopotamia and moves west over time culminating in the industrial revolution in England and then American dominance in the 20th century.