Curtis Clark wrote at 9:02 PM on Saturday, May 22, 2004: >It's hard for me to believe that the world community of Semitic scholars >is so small or monolithic that there aren't differences of opinion among >them. I have been almost automatically suspicious of the posts by the >Semiticists opposed to encoding Phoenician; after thirty-four years in >academia (longer if I count that my father was a professor when I was a >youth), I have yet to see a field in which there were not differences of >opinion. Admittedly, all Semiticists might agree on the nature of >Phoenician (just as all chemists accept the periodic table), but the >fervor exhibited here makes me wonder what the issues *really* are. I am >used to seeing such fervor among academics only when there has been some >unstated agenda at work. And so I wonder, are we in this list reading >only one side of an internal squabble among Semiticists?
Certainly not that I'm aware of. I am speaking my for myself. And I am not carrying on private discussions with anyone about this issue. Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
