Peter Constable wrote at 8:58 AM on Tuesday, May 4, 2004: >Ah, so the next protracted debate is going to be whether Samaritan >should also be encoded using the existing square Hebrew characters. >Since it would appear that the argument for unification of PH with >Hebrew could also argue for unification of PH with Samaritan, or of all >three.
Correct. Samaritan, unlike Old Hebrew, which adopted Aramaic forms during and after the Babylonian exile, has retained the Phoenician/Canaanite forms. The main complication I see with encoding Samaritan, that is different than what we are currently discussing, is the reality of its still- living, long-preserved script and religious tradition. Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
