Regarding Samaritan, there is a group of modern users certainly. This page http://www.orindalodge.org/kadoshsamaritan.php has a number of interesting links on it. Masonic scholars apparently differentiate between Hebrew and Samaritan.
And yet the same page says:
Kadosh Samaritan follows the Michigan-Claremont encoding
scheme, just like the Scholars Press Hebrew fonts. That means
that you can represent any unpointed and unaccented Hebrew
in Samaritan type just by changing the font.In other words, they are using Samaritan as a cypher for Hebrew.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What was venerated as style was nothing more than
an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
- Orhan Pamuk, _My name is red_
