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• And so, to conclude this lesson, we see that Aramaic is closely connected with the very dawn of civilisation itself, with the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilisation, going back all the way to Genesis 10 in the establishment of the Assyrian kingdom, which would later become one of the most powerful and mighty empires the world has ever known.
• Just as Hebrew and Aramaic are like two vines growing together and becoming inter-twined, so too the ancient Israelites grew together with the nations around them, becoming intertwined with the Assyrian Empire, Israelite kings becoming intertwined with the Assyrian kings, the fate of the one becoming the fate of the other.