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According to J. Naveh, the Semitic alphabets originated with Proto-Canaanite (eighteenth to seventeenth centuries BCE), from which there was derived around 1300 BCE the Proto-Arabic script, the ancestor of the systems used in the South Arabian and Ethiopic scripts.

The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.

Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.

There is general agreement that the differences between the Palestinian and Tiberian traditions are so great that they may even reflect separate dialects.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

ordered me a sky from a florist

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

And, in the red firelight, I blushed again, unnoticed, to think he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.

It was the fault of the wedding-dress night, when she married the shadows and the world ended.

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion.

Finn is Daddy,' said Victoria with fat satisfaction. 'Not yet,' said Finn. 'But we'll christen the first one Proximity.' Melanie choked on a mouthful.

It was a sensitive and musical dog.

It was a real treat when he'd read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we'd reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I'd have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.

I had always held a little towards Gulliver's opinion, that horses are better than we are, and, that day, I would have been glad to depart with him to the kingdom of horses, if I'd been given the chance.

NU S-AR FI A?TEPTAT CA SUFLETUL LUI SÄ' CUNOASCÄ' ASTFEL DE TRÄ'IRI. […] MELANIE SE SIMÈšEA U?OR VINOVATÄ' CÄ' NU-I PUTEA ÎMPÄ'RT??I SENTIMENTELE CU ACEEA?I INTENSITATE.

In an age when everyone else is terribly concerned with political correctness, my husband's preaching is uncommonly blunt. Perhaps that's the secret of his success.

The Torah has set limits for every stage of grief: three days for weeping, seven

In any case, HaShem had spared me from that bloody palace. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Boredom is the bastard baby of Broke. I'm used to Broke living here, but when Boredom comes 'round for those weekend visits, things get a little crazy.

People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose that common touch. 'Miss Austen to you' is what I feel inclined to say.

She had a mouth like a mop: picking up the dirt from all the corners.