From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 10:42:19 EDT
Andrew C. West wrote at 6:32 AM on Thursday, April 29, 2004:
>If you transliterate a Phoenician text into Hebrew, that
>is perfectly OK; if you transliterate it into Latin, Cyrillic or
>Mongolian, that
>is also perfectly OK if your target audience is more familiar with those
>scripts
I don't view Phoenician to Hebrew as transliteration, particularly for
Old Hebrew - they are the same script. The orthography and paleography
may, or may not, vary a little but the script is the same.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
218C New Engineering Building
3400 North Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
office: 410 516-6850
cell: 717 817-4897
www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
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