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 worked either in the copper mines of the
southern Sinai or were mercenaries in an Egyptian army
in the Western Desert.
I also think that your attitude is that of a Hellenist
or Indo-Europeanist, who looks at everything from the
perspective of Athens. Semitics is "Praeparatio
Hellenika"--its other aspects are less important, and
hence not to be emphasized in computerization or
anything else.
Not all roads lead to Athens, Michael Everson--some of
them go elsewhere--Elaine Keown
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