On 30/04/2004 13:30, John Hudson wrote:
... but all I'm personally questioning is the one sentence in which he says the new Phoenician characters should be used used for Palaeo-Hebrew. I'm not sure that this is the best recommendation to make to the people who actually work with Palaeo-Hebrew.
I don't consider this alternate suggestion to be an improvement. There is no good reason to use different encodings for Phoenician and paleo-Hebrew texts written in essentially the same script. This is especially true because in the earlier times the languages as well as the scripts are essentially identical. I understand that scholars dispute whether the Gezer calendar is southern Phoenician or western Hebrew. How would such an uncertain document be encoded?
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