Re: [hebrew] Re: Ancient Northwest Semitic Script (was Re: why Aramaic now)

From: Elaine Keown (elaine_keown@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 09:40:06 EST

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              Elaine Keown
              still in Texas

    Dear Michael Everson and Lists:

    Michael Everson wrote:
    > And the mother of those scripts is Phoenician. She
    is
    > *not* Hebrew.

    The mother script is probably the southern Sinai or
    Wadi el-Hol script, written in about 1,700 B.C.E. by
    Aramaeans who worked either in the copper mines of the
    southern Sinai or were mercenaries in an Egyptian army
    in the Western Desert.

    I also think that your attitude is that of a Hellenist
    or Indo-Europeanist, who looks at everything from the
    perspective of Athens. Semitics is "Praeparatio
    Hellenika"--its other aspects are less important, and
    hence not to be emphasized in computerization or
    anything else.

    Not all roads lead to Athens, Michael Everson--some of
    them go elsewhere--Elaine Keown

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