From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 14:12:07 EDT
At 23:26 -0400 2004-04-29, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>I'd been making the same assumption all along as well. In the way
>of corroboration, I have here Ze'ev Ben-?ayyim's book "A Grammar of
>Samaritan Hebrew." Samaritans generally use their distinctive
>scripts, especially in their religious books, but Ben-?ayyim writes
>*everything* with ordinary square Hebrew letters; there isn't a
>Samaritan-style base-glyph in the book, so far as I can tell (though
>he does show some Samaritan vowels on the square letters). This
>isn't exactly the same situation, and it is an isolated case, though.
It's not isolated at all. Ze'ev is transliterating Samaritan text
into Hebrew script. I have seen books on Ugaritic grammar that do
likewise. It doesn't mean that there is no Samaritan or Ugaritic
script.
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