> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dean Snyder
> >The Samaritan newsletter A-B is available both in Square Hebrew and in > >Samaritan-script editions. > > Which, by the way, is an argument AGAINST encoding Canaanite/Phoenician > separately from Hebrew AND encoding Samaritan separately from Hebrew. > (Compare, for example, the 7th century BC Hebrew seal glyphs with the > medieval and modern Samaritan glyphs in samples 5 & 6 of the attachment I > emailed yesterday.) I simply do not see how the availability of a publication in both forms is such an argument. Also, I think one could easily conclude from the samples that, if Canaanite/Phoenician is unified with something, it should be unified with Samaritan script rather than the square Hebrew script. Peter Constable
