From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 20:45:10 EDT
Michael Everson wrote at 11:12 AM on Thursday, April 29, 2004:
>At 10:42 -0400 2004-04-29, Dean Snyder wrote:
>
>>I don't view Phoenician to Hebrew as transliteration, particularly for
>>Old Hebrew - they are the same script.
>
>No they are not. Phoenician is the mother. Her
>most direct daughter is Samaritan (which will not
>be unified with Hebrew).
What exactly do you mean by "mother" and "daughter" here?
If you mean the chronologically prior and direct ancestor, then I would
be very interested in the evidence upon which you base such opinions.
>Another daughter was an
>intermediate Aramaic script which itself had many
>children, only one of which was Jewish Hebrew as
>used in Israel today.
What are you doing with Old Hebrew and Old Aramaic in this scheme?
>Hebrew, friends, is ONLY ONE of Phoenician's
>children. Why should she be unified with her
>Hebrew daughter? Why not her Old Italic, or
>Greek, or other daughters?
You have a pan-Phoenician view of alphabetic script development and
dispersion. Where did you get it?
>The Greek and Etruscan alphabets do not derive from the Hebrew alphabet.
But you are not specifying which alphabet(s) they did derive from. Why not?
>I do not propose to "disunify" Phoenician from
>Hebrew. In my view, Phoenician has never been,
>and cannot be, unified with Hebrew.
You need to research this much better before making such authoritarian,
"in my view", statements.
>They are
>different scripts. They are not font variants in
>any sense of the term.
Mighty strong statements with no authority given to back them up.
Dean A. Snyder
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Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
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