Peter Constable scripsit: > 2) the characters in question are structurally / behaviourally very > similar to square Hebrew characters, but not to the characters of other > scripts
Not just very similar: structurally, behaviorally, and even phonemically identical. > Item 1, I think we'd agree, is just wrong. Item 2 is probably true. But > is it enough to refer to square Hebrew as "the modern form" of > Phoenician (Old Canaanite, whatever you want to call it)? Well, one of the two modern forms, Samaritan being the other. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon. Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again. It's a classic tale." --Kryten, Red Dwarf
