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CHALDEE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 805 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHALDEE  , a

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term sometimes applied to the Aramaic portions of the biblical books of Ezra and Daniel or to the vernacular paraphrases of the Old Testament (see
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TARGUM) . The explanation formerly adopted and embodied in the name Chaldee is that the change took place in Babylon . That the so-called Biblical Chaldee, in which considerable portions of the books of Ezra and Daniel are written, was really the language of Babylon was supposed to be dear from
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Dan. ii . 4, where the Chaldaeans are said to have spoken to the king in Aramaic . But the cuneiform inscriptions show that the language of the Chaldaeans was
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Assyrian; and an examination of the very large
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part of the
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Hebrew Old Testament written later than the exile proves conclusively that the substitution of Aramaic for Hebrew as the vernacular of
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Palestine took place very gradually . Hence scholars are now agreed that the term " Chaldee " is a misnomer, and that the dialect so called is really the language of the South-Western Arameans, who were the immediate neighbours of the Jews (W . Wright,
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Comparative Grammar of the Semitic
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Languages, p . 16) .

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