Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 11:24:52 EST

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    At 07:11 AM 12/24/2003, Elaine Keown wrote:

    > > Now, that said, I am very keen to have the Samaritan
    > > shin encoded, because
    > > this is used as a mark in the apparatus critici of
    > > the BHS and possibly
    >
    >In the Dead Sea Scrolls, several other letters with
    >Palaeo-Hebrew shapes are used as paragraph etc.
    >markers.
    >
    >So, if you wish, your shin could be submitted when
    >they are--Elaine

    Thanks for the suggestion, Elaine, but I suspect it makes more sense to
    propose the Samaritan shin *symbol* separately, as a textual apparatus
    siglum, rather than along with letters used as symbols in the text itself.
    Not every letter used as a symbol needs to be encoded as a letterlike
    symbol in addition to potentially being encoded as a letter; in this case,
    the shin symbol is used in a left-to-right context, so there is a good
    argument for having it separately encoded.

    John Hudson

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