From: James Kass (jameskass@att.net)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 10:32:22 CDT
Michael Everson wrote,
> At 13:09 +0000 2004-05-24, James Kass wrote:
>
> >And we get back to the gist. Is it a separate script? Would it be
> >fair to ask for documentation that the ancient Phoenicians who used
> >the script considered it to be a variant of modern Hebrew? (No, it's
> >not a fair question at all. But, I think it's an appropriate question.)
>
> Why, James, we gave evidence a month ago that the ancient Hebrews
> considered it to be a different script than the one they had learned
> in exile.
It was hoped that they'd go off someplace looking for an ancient
Phoenician inscription that says something like, 'this alphabet of
ours may mutate into something unrecognizable in a few thousand years,
but we'd still consider it the same script'. It wasn't expected that
they'd find any such thing, though.
Best regards,
James Kass
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