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Help[Opinions] Re: Candace
in reply to a message by Raven Briar
How would they even know how it was pronounced then?
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I don't know. I assume it would be the same way that historians come up with pronunciations for ancient Egyptian texts and other dead languages. At least with Greek and Hebrew, they have an idea of how things would have been pronounced, but Candace would be an English translation of a Jewish text's recording of an ancient African title.
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Armaic not Hebrew was spoken during Biblical times and records were not really kept to the extend that they are kept now. Prounouncitions are made up. No way of knowing that.
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The Old Testament of the Bible is recorded in Hebrew. Only a few chapters in the prophecies of Ezra and Daniel and one verse in Jeremiah were written in Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Greek since it was widely used in scholarship during the time. I agree that we really cannot be 100% certain about the pronunciations, which is why I made my comment.
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