From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2006 - 12:44:06 CST
At 09:57 -0800 2006-12-15, John Hudson wrote:
>>Many scholars use top or bottom half square brackets to indicate
>>that MSS or papyri are broken or worn away and that the text within
>>the brackets is supplied by the editor.
>
>I have not seen this convention used with Hebrew. There is a
>different set of conventions used for e.g. Dead Sea Scrolls
>transcription, which employs square brackets, dots and circles to
>indicate various kinds of damaged letters, erased letters, presumed
>letters, etc.
Interesting.. because the half square brackets are certainly used in
transcriptions of Cuneiform... At least the convention should be
known to Semiticists.
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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