Elaine Keown
still in Texas
Dear Michael Everson and Lists:
Michael Everson wrote:
And the mother of those scripts is Phoenician. She
is
*not* Hebrew.
The mother script is probably the southern Sinai or
Wadi el-Hol script, written in about 1,700 B.C.E. by
Aramaeans who
At 06:40 -0800 2003-12-29, Elaine Keown wrote:
Michael Everson wrote:
And the mother of those scripts is Phoenician. She is *not* Hebrew.
The mother script is probably the southern Sinai or Wadi el-Hol
script, written in about 1,700 B.C.E. by Aramaeans who worked either
in the copper mines of
At 07:39 AM 12/29/2003, Michael Everson wrote:
I also think that your attitude is that of a Hellenist or
Indo-Europeanist, who looks at everything from the perspective of Athens.
Think what you like.
Semitics is Praeparatio Hellenika--its other aspects are less
important, and
hence not to be
Elaine Keown
still in Texas
Dear Michael Everson, Dean Snyder, and Lists:
I am grateful that Michael Everson chose to share his
thinking (and, I guess, that of Rick McGowan and Ken
Whistler) on Semitic alphabet(s) with us. I had been
wondering for a long time where the Roadmap ideas
At 06:57 AM 12/26/2003, Michael Everson wrote:
Every historian of writing describes the various scripts *as* scripts, and
recognizes them differently. We have bilinguals where people are
distinguishing the scripts in text; we have discussion, for instance in
the Babylonian Talmud, specifically
Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
This is a particularly cogent point. The Mishna (c. 1st century C.E.)
does explicitly distinguish between Paleo-Hebrew and Square Hebrew
(tractate Yadayim 4:5). That's not a font-difference, that's a
script-difference, I think.
There were no such things as fonts in
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