Re: Pal(a)eo-Hebrew and Square Hebrew

From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 05:53:10 CDT


Dean Snyder a écrit :

>Patrick Andries wrote at 8:55 AM on Monday, May 3, 2004:
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>>I got this answer from a forum dedicated to Ancient Hebrew :
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>>« Very few people can read let alone recognize the paleo Hebrew font.
>>Most modern Hebrew readers are not even aware that Hebrew was once
>>written in the paleo Hebrew script.
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>The same could be said for archaic Greek versus modern Greek - do you
>propose to encode archaic Greek separately?
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[PA] I'm proposing nothing here, I'm just forwarding an answer,

>>When the text was written in the paleo Hebrew four of the
>>Hebrew letters were used as vowels - aleph, hey, vav and yud, but were
>>removed from the text when the masorites added the vowel pointings. This
>>is evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls where the four letters are found in
>>the words but removed in the Masoretic text.
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>This is simply not true.
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[PA] So there were Dead Sea Scrolls written in Square Hebrew with matres
lectionis ? (I don't know, I just would like to know.)

P.A.



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