REASONINGS WITHOUT ANY MERITS.

Submitted by IamJoseph (Australia), May 7, 2010 at 21:29

>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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# Like most everything you posted, you are also wrong here. Firstly, its not Judeo Hebrew - its Hebrew, which predates the Roman term. The Jews used Arabic oral language and transcribed it with Hebrew alphabeticals because there was no Arabic writings at that time, and because the Hebrew was forbidden. EA also does not apply here, nor Syrian: the words used in the transliteration is Hebrew.

With foreign alphabets - this only applies when one party does not have alphabetical writings or when one party's writings were forbidden - as was the case with the Hebrew under Babylon and Rome. Here, there was no need to forbid Arabic - because it never existed - it was directed only to those who followed Monotheism. The pre-Islamic Arabs were not Monotheists and did not follow the Abrahamic or Mosaic beliefs. The merit of preserving Monotheism falls squarely on the shoulders of the Jews - and they should be hailed for this - not villified. The Jews stood up to many nations and encountered many existential wars to uphold their beliefs, and this is also the case today with the Islamist states who want to destroy the most legitimate state in Arabia. Israel is far more legitimate than Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan,all the Gulf states, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. Israel's borers are not based on oil or created 150 years ago. Israel existed 4000 years ago and has factual, historical proof of this.

There is no alphabetical or any form of Arabic writings pre-400 CE, but there was with the Hebrew. Your reasoning, obviously to bypass the real issue of the vacuum of Arabic writings, is without merit. First you used another reasoning, claiming older writings prove there was Arabic pre-400 CE, also without merit - it only proves that Arabic is an admix of many older languages and writings.

Then you reasoned the Quran has pre-dating knowledge of events which have yet to materialise - this too is without merit, because we see some 90% of the Quran is already recorded a 1000 years previously in the Hebrew - not seen in any other writings, which means there was no other place to get this knowledge but from the Hebrew bible. The Jews should be hailed for preserving these books even under great measures to destroy the Jewish nation.

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