Mark E. Shoulson wrote at 11:04 PM on Saturday, May 1, 2004: >Dean Snyder wrote: > >>Phoenician Hebrew >>1st Millenium BC 2nd Millenium AD >> >>ykbd ykbd both = "he will honor" >>tbrk tbrk both = "she will bless" >>bqsh bqsh both = "he searched for" >>btm btm both = "houses" >>... >> >> >Even in Biblical Hebrew, "houses" would usually be "btym". Certainly in >modern.
Yes, of course. Though the usual orthography in Biblical and Modern Hebrew is plene spelling (with the vowel-indicating mater lectionis "y"), it can also be spelled defectively, without it - a common orthography in Old Hebrew. My only point was the readability for modern Hebrew readers of the Phoenician forms. 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
