Mark E. Shoulson scripsit: > So the "transitional" forms are more to be found in Aramaic texts: if > you're distinguishing by shape, Paleo-Hebrew is definitely not > transitional.
I don't think this means temporally transitional, but functionally so. Phoenician writing, Hebrew language: a borderline case. -- "There is no real going back. Though I John Cowan may come to the Shire, it will not seem [EMAIL PROTECTED] the same; for I shall not be the same. http://www.reutershealth.com I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?" --Frodo
