At 20:22 -0700 2004-05-03, Mark Davis wrote:
all, it *is* unifying as it says "Proto-Sinaitic/Proto-Canaanite,
No, Proto-Sinaitic is out, actually, though it's still in the Summary Form by accident.
Punic, Neo-Punic, Phoenician proper, Late Phoenician cursive, Phoenician papyrus, Siloam Hebrew, Hebrew seals, Ammonite, Moabite, Palaeo-Hebrew", but not unifying these with modern Hebrew (and I'm not sure where the cut-off point in the history of Hebrew is). Making such choices require explanation.
N2311 did the slicing. Perhaps it needs revision. For my part I am more interested in the technical content than in the justification. Whether members of this list will forgive me for that focus is up to them.
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