More from our dear iam

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), May 7, 2010 at 17:59

Our dear iam and he is a careless reader

I wrote

>the jews used Hebrew letters to write texts in Arabic (the so called Judeo Arabic) how come you did not know that?

># Sure I know this. It relates to when the Jews were in Mesopotamia since the Babylon exile, and the Hebrew was forbidden, as with the Roman exile. The Jews who lived in Arabic lands spoke fluent Arabic and even wrote many Hebrew books transcribed in Arabic - but these are all post-400 CE. They also wrote in Greek. This does not mean there was Arabic writings pre-400 CE. Here is proof from your own Wiki regarding when the Babylon Talmud was written down - namely in 500 CE, well after the Arabic emerged:

...I was telling you that it is very common for languages to be written by using a FOREIGN ALPHABET ...

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