THE SAME NONSENSE REPEATED HERE.

Submitted by IamJoseph (Australia), Apr 19, 2010 at 01:36

This is what you wrote our dear iamjoseph wrote. Right ?

>The reason we have no Arabic writing pre-400 CE

Our dear iamjoseph does not seem to know or care to admit that many Arabs lived in the Syrian desert and Mesopotamia "from time immemorial" and i inlcude here the Lakhmids and the Ghassanids and the likes of the kingdom of the Hira and how come you did not know that our dear iam?

Well let us check the first line iin epigraphy that was found in Namara and in Arabic and it is dated 328CE right mr fake? And here is the first line

li nafs amr' al-qays br 3amru malik al-3arab kuluh dhu asr al-taj

Or : this is for the soul (read this as the tomb) of Amru al-qays the son of Amr king of the Arabs who assumed the crown

Do you know what this means?

1. It means that we have Arabic language before your bogus year 400CE

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# No sir - it does NOT mean you have Arabic pre-400 CE. An epitaph on a tomb stone does not constitute or equate you had Arabic writings, books or kings. It means the writings came after the Arabs begat arabic writings - but the epitaph itself is not in Arabic writings! It is a common known fact that Arabic is new - around the 400 CE mark.

2. The arabs had kings as this is the tomb of a king

# Fine - I never said there were no Arabs; only that there were no Arabs before 500 BCE. Get focused.

3. Arabs lived in the Syrian desert

# Fine. No arguements of your undated statement.

4. The word br is Syriac for Arabic bin or ibn which also means that there was always garshouni in Arabic texts just like the Jews of Egypt in late antiquity using Aramaic for khotoba papyri so you think that we should say that there were no jews back then because these papyri were not in Hebrew? now do you see why all you claims seem to be bogus and dogmatic

# You have no Arabic writings pre-400 CE; no Arabs pre-500 BCE. If the word BR or GRRR is Syrian for Arabic - then you would have Arabic writings. You do not. Unlike the Hebrew.

Now you have 4 for the price of one

# I have nothing from you which helps anything you said.

Now you either put up or you must pardon me shut up

# I did put up. You must put up. Please put up any Arabic books pre-400 CE or any Arab king pre-500 BCE. Easy for those claiming TIME IMMOMORIAL - an Arafat term no less!

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