From: Curtis Clark (jcclark@mockfont.com)
Date: Sat May 22 2004 - 23:02:32 CDT
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?
-- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
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