Asmus Freytag wrote at 12:04 AM on Wednesday, May 26, 2004: >Difficulties in reading a script may explain why it has been abandoned >but they don't argue for or against encoding it. Otherwise, my handwriting, >set to type would be a shoo-in. ;-)
Precisely my point for those who ran Palaeo-Hebrew tests with modern Hebrew speakers and used the lack of legibility as an argument to encode Phoenician/Palaeo-Hebrew. We also have to remember that the Siloam inscription test: * was in "handwriting" incised in stone * was in a different orthography than modern Hebrew * using dots to separate words * and lacked vowel indicators (matres lectionis), very important contextual clues for reading modern Hebrew All of this contributed to a lack of modern legibility for the Palaeo- Hebrew sample text, and the kinds of things I tried to avoid with my Fraktur test. 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
