From: John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 23:32:27 CST
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.
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