Philippe Verdy wrote at 10:15 PM on Wednesday, November 5, 2003: >If it's not in the written text, it is not implied by the writer.
If this were true, based on the fact that writers wrote very few of them, we would be faced with the implication that there were very few vowels indeed in the old Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Syriac, Phoenician, Moabite, Ammonite, and Ugaritic languages. Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Scholarly Technology Specialist Library Digital Programs, Sheridan Libraries Garrett Room, MSE Library, 3400 N. Charles St. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 mobile: 410 245-7168 fax: 410-516-6229 Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project: www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi

