Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2003 - 18:17:17 EST

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    On 26/12/2003 19:10, Christopher John Fynn wrote:

    > ...
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    >Personally I think although many scholars may regard Phoenician, Moabite, Old
    >Hebrew, Samaritan, and Old Aramaic:as one "writing system" - for contemporary
    >political reasons some descendents of the users of those scripts might take
    >offence if these old scripts were lumped together under the name "Hebrew" (old
    >or new), and no one wants that to happen.
    >
    >
    >
    As far as I know the only relevant community is the modern Samaritans.
    We should ask them.

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    Peter Kirk
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