Michael Everson wrote, > At 13:09 +0000 2004-05-24, James Kass wrote: > > >And we get back to the gist. Is it a separate script? Would it be > >fair to ask for documentation that the ancient Phoenicians who used > >the script considered it to be a variant of modern Hebrew? (No, it's > >not a fair question at all. But, I think it's an appropriate question.) > > Why, James, we gave evidence a month ago that the ancient Hebrews > considered it to be a different script than the one they had learned > in exile.
It was hoped that they'd go off someplace looking for an ancient Phoenician inscription that says something like, 'this alphabet of ours may mutate into something unrecognizable in a few thousand years, but we'd still consider it the same script'. It wasn't expected that they'd find any such thing, though. Best regards, James Kass
