From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2003 - 18:17:17 EST
On 26/12/2003 19:10, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
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>Personally I think although many scholars may regard Phoenician, Moabite, Old
>Hebrew, Samaritan, and Old Aramaic:as one "writing system" - for contemporary
>political reasons some descendents of the users of those scripts might take
>offence if these old scripts were lumped together under the name "Hebrew" (old
>or new), and no one wants that to happen.
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As far as I know the only relevant community is the modern Samaritans.
We should ask them.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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