Old Aramaic, not the newer Aramaic that is still being spoken today. Aramaic and Hebrew show up mostly at the same time, and is preceded by an older form that is called Assyrian, Old Aramaic or just Canaanite because anthropologists are assholes who can't make up their damn minds on what to call things so it changes depending on who is writing the book that refers to it. Basically it came from whatever was being spoken in Canaan and then that language branched off into Hebrew and Aramaic right around the same time.
Granted what I said is a gross oversimplification and really it is hard to reconstruct any language family tree that is that old. There is also a version of Hebrew that predates the Biblical version that can be called older than even Old Aramaic, and some assholes call the modern version of Aramaic "Old Aramaic" because of course they fucking do!
TL;DR I want to punch anthropologists in the dick because a quick google search on the subject yielded a bunch of (probably) British guys who all contradict each other and so there is no real family tree for Hebrew and Aramaic and the best that I can tell they roughly show up around the same time (600-900 BC) give or take a century.
It was adopted into koine Greek and Aramaic in New Testament times, but originated from Hebrew.
Hebrew branched off Aramaic, not the other way around
Old Aramaic, not the newer Aramaic that is still being spoken today. Aramaic and Hebrew show up mostly at the same time, and is preceded by an older form that is called Assyrian, Old Aramaic or just Canaanite because anthropologists are assholes who can't make up their damn minds on what to call things so it changes depending on who is writing the book that refers to it. Basically it came from whatever was being spoken in Canaan and then that language branched off into Hebrew and Aramaic right around the same time.
Granted what I said is a gross oversimplification and really it is hard to reconstruct any language family tree that is that old. There is also a version of Hebrew that predates the Biblical version that can be called older than even Old Aramaic, and some assholes call the modern version of Aramaic "Old Aramaic" because of course they fucking do!
TL;DR I want to punch anthropologists in the dick because a quick google search on the subject yielded a bunch of (probably) British guys who all contradict each other and so there is no real family tree for Hebrew and Aramaic and the best that I can tell they roughly show up around the same time (600-900 BC) give or take a century.
You seem wise. Iām curious to know where you learned all this