Peter Constable wrote at 7:23 AM on Tuesday, May 25, 2004: >Dean Snyder >> In fact Jews used both diascripts, Palaeo-Hebrew and Jewish >> Hebrew, contemporaneously. > >Could you please provide more information on this? Is this referring to >the DSS including both, or did the common man on the street use both? >(There may have been paleographers in the first century BC as there are >today. That shouldn't be construed as unqualified contemporaneous use.)
The contemporary use of both Palaeo-Hebrew and Jewish Hebrew is witnessed by: 1) "Entire" Dead Sea manuscripts written in one or the other of the two diascripts 2) Palaeo-Hebrew Tetragrammatons embedded in Jewish Hebrew manuscripts 3) Palaeo-Hebrew scribal redactions to Jewish Hebrew manuscripts 4) Hasmonean era Jewish coins with Palaeo-Hebrew inscriptions 5) Palaeo-Hebrew date and content markers on wine jugs at Qumran 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
