At 23:26 -0400 2004-04-29, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
I'd been making the same assumption all along as well. In the way of corroboration, I have here Ze'ev Ben-?ayyim's book "A Grammar of Samaritan Hebrew." Samaritans generally use their distinctive scripts, especially in their religious books, but Ben-?ayyim writes *everything* with ordinary square Hebrew letters; there isn't a Samaritan-style base-glyph in the book, so far as I can tell (though he does show some Samaritan vowels on the square letters). This isn't exactly the same situation, and it is an isolated case, though.
It's not isolated at all. Ze'ev is transliterating Samaritan text into Hebrew script. I have seen books on Ugaritic grammar that do likewise. It doesn't mean that there is no Samaritan or Ugaritic script.
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