Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?

[Curtis Clark]

It's hard for me to believe that the world community of Semitic scholars 
is so small or monolithic that there aren't differences of opinion among 
them. I have been almost automatically suspicious of the posts by the 
Semiticists opposed to encoding Phoenician; after thirty-four years in 
academia (longer if I count that my father was a professor when I was a 
youth), I have yet to see a field in which there were not differences of 
opinion. Admittedly, all Semiticists might agree on the nature of 
Phoenician (just as all chemists accept the periodic table), but the 
fervor exhibited here makes me wonder what the issues *really* are. I am 
used to seeing such fervor among academics only when there has been some 
unstated agenda at work. And so I wonder, are we in this list reading 
only one side of an internal squabble among Semiticists?

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