I wrote:
This text, along with this illustration from the second volume (figures 019 to 1)
http://www.tiro.com/view/NorthSemitic.jpg
is instructive.
There seems an obvious question for Michael arising from this illustration:
With what characters -- Hebrew or Phoenician -- would you expect Birnbaum's Palaeo-Hebrew to be encoded?
It seems to me that on visual grounds one would use Phoenician, but on textual grounds one would use Hebrew. This is quite problematic, and I can see why Peter is unhappy about having two equally valid ways of encoding the same text *represented by the same glyphs*.
John Hudson
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