From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 11:31:33 CDT
On 02/05/2004 16:48, Michael Everson wrote:
> ...
>
> It is not possible to take an encoded Genesis text which is pointed
> and cantillated, and blithly change the font to Moabite or Punic and
> expect anyone to even recognize it as Hebrew.
Michael, you assert this, but do you actually know it to be true? After
all, this is not your area of expertise. I agree that this kind of
mixture is an anachronistic one, much like the example I mentioned
earlier of Vietnamese in Fraktur. But this text would be easily
recognisable and readable by anyone familiar with both Hebrew and the
Phoenician glyphs.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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