From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 07:46:03 EST
On 22/12/2003 18:15, jameskass@att.net wrote:
>.
>Quoting from:
>http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1308&letter=A
>
><quote>
>... In the letter מ the original bent stem was curved upward still
>more until it reached the upper horizontal stroke, so that the
>final Mem to-day has the form ם. The Palmyrene script possesses
>a final Nun with a lengthened stem; the Nabatean contains similarly
>final Kaph, Nun, Ẓade, and Shin, and further a closed final Mem
>and final He. ...
><end quote>
>
>So, apparently we have contextual forms which differ a bit between
>scripts. (Hebrew has final KAF, MEM, NUN, PE, and TSADI.)
>
>
>
Note also that "the Palmyrene script ... in essence is the same as the
Hebrew square script". But this article dates from 1901, and huge
quantities of relevant texts have been discovered in the intervening
century.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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