Michael Everson wrote:
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.
To be fair, it isn't at all clear from your evidence that the Ancient Hebrews had the same concept of 'script' as the Unicode Standard. I don't recall anything in what you cited that suggested anything more significant than a recognition of a change in the style of writing *the same Hebrew letters*, or as they might have said, if they did use Unicode parlance, the same abstract characters.
The fact that they acknowledge that particular styles of writing are or are not appropriate for religious texts is neither surprising nor relevant, as the same distinctions are made between ktiva merubaat and stam.
John Hudson
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