Patrick Andries wrote at 8:55 AM on Monday, May 3, 2004: >I got this answer from a forum dedicated to Ancient Hebrew : > >� Very few people can read let alone recognize the paleo Hebrew font. >Most modern Hebrew readers are not even aware that Hebrew was once >written in the paleo Hebrew script.
The same could be said for archaic Greek versus modern Greek - do you propose to encode archaic Greek separately? >When the text was written in the paleo Hebrew four of the >Hebrew letters were used as vowels - aleph, hey, vav and yud, but were >removed from the text when the masorites added the vowel pointings. This >is evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls where the four letters are found in >the words but removed in the Masoretic text. This is simply not true. 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
