Brandon (Supreme Leader) :
You are confusing three different things: ethnicity, personal names, and written language,The source you cite does not provide an inscription explicitly stating that Odaenathus was “Aramean”; it infers this from the names of his grandfather and father. But the Oxford Handbook of Palmyra itself warns that the linguistic background of a personal name is not necessarily linked to the ethnic origin of the individual More importantly, Trevor Bryce’s Ancient Syria, p. 280, explicitly states that Arabic was the most frequently heard language in Palmyra’s streets and that at least half, and possibly considerably more, of the city’s population was of Arabic origin, based on their personal names, divine names, cults and social organization. He simultaneously explains that Aramaic was the dominant language of the written inscriptions,Mohammed Maraqten likewise states that the majority of the people of Palmyra were Arabs and identifies a substantial Arabic influence in Palmyrene inscriptions, including personal names, divine names, vocabulary and grammatical features,Therefore, saying “Odaenathus had Aramaic names, therefore Palmyrenes were Aramaeans rather than Arabs” is simply an invalid generalization. A Palmyrene could have an Aramaic name, use Aramaic in inscriptions, and still belong to an Arabian tribal or ethnic background.So your source does not disprove an Arabian component in Palmyra,Semitic Aramaic-Arabian=Both Native of Levant Anyway, In fact the academic sources you are using explicitly document it And you got Exposed by The last Source Nice Try 👌🏻
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