From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 07:55:25 CDT
Curtis Clark wrote at 9:02 PM on Saturday, May 22, 2004:
>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?
Certainly not that I'm aware of. I am speaking my for myself.
And I am not carrying on private discussions with anyone about this issue.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
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Johns Hopkins University
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