Re: New contribution

From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 10:42:19 EDT

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    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

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