At 13:30 -0700 2004-04-30, John Hudson wrote:
What I'm referring to is the body of inscriptional and numismatic text from a period of c. 700-800 years in which the Hebrew language is written in the common North Semitic script that is covered in Michael's proposal. The point is that this is all Hebrew language text, easily encodable with existing Hebrew characters, and semiticists have a practical interest in not making a distinction in the corpus of Hebrew text based on the style of lettering used.
So they transliterate Hebrew *language* into Jewish/Square Hebrew script. There's nothing wrong with that.
I'm personally questioning is the one sentence in which he says the new Phoenician characters should be used used for Palaeo-Hebrew. I'm not sure that this is the best recommendation to make to the people who actually work with Palaeo-Hebrew.
People who work with that *language* on computers can transcribe it with whatever they want. The set of *scripts* proposed to be unified under the Phoenician *script*, however, does include Palaeo-Hebrew as a *script*.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
