From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 12:59:55 CDT
Patrick Andries wrote at 8:55 AM on Monday, May 3, 2004:
>I got this answer from a forum dedicated to Ancient Hebrew :
>
>« Very few people can read let alone recognize the paleo Hebrew font.
>Most modern Hebrew readers are not even aware that Hebrew was once
>written in the paleo Hebrew script.
The same could be said for archaic Greek versus modern Greek - do you
propose to encode archaic Greek separately?
>When the text was written in the paleo Hebrew four of the
>Hebrew letters were used as vowels - aleph, hey, vav and yud, but were
>removed from the text when the masorites added the vowel pointings. This
>is evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls where the four letters are found in
>the words but removed in the Masoretic text.
This is simply not true.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
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Johns Hopkins University
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