[word=Semitic] [□=□]
[word=Semitic] [tag=□]
[word=Semitic] [word=□]
Among such scholars , the most influential is Martin Bernal , whose book Black Athena stressed influence of Afro-Asiatic and Semitic civilizations on Classical Greece . Because of ethnolinguistic arguments about connections between peoples and cultural values , " Aryan " peoples were often considered to be distinct from Semitic peoples . Body size and shape , hairiness , Semitic features were all grist for discussion even as participants downed salmon and chocolate mousse . The poet William Blake had also attacked " the stolen and perverted writings of Homer and Ovid , of Plato and Cicero , " asserting that they were copies of more ancient Semitic texts . This does not imply that all the Semitic races had from the beginning a clear concept of God 's unit and Divine attributes , though all had originally the Divine name El . cit ., p. 78 ) urges against these views that even the Semitic races need distinct units before they have a sum , and distinct parts before that arrive at a totality .