[Biblical-languages] Hebrew with Aramaic, Phoenician etc in scholarly publications

Karljürgen Feuerherm cuneiform at rogers.com
Wed Jul 16 10:28:33 EDT 2003


Peter Kirk wrote on July 16, 2003 9:00 AM
> On 16/07/2003 05:10, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote:
>
> >I would expect that to be the major legitimzing issue. I can't speak for
> >what is presently in journals, but from a theoretical standpoint, one
should
> >consider the ease with with a scholar might write on the development, for
> >example, of those writing systems and wish to integrate various ones in
one
> >monograph.
> >
> Within reason, I'm sure. But we can't expect every minor development to
> have a different Unicode block. If an author wants to write e.g. "In 6th
> century Damascus the shape of aleph was ... but in 5th century Palmyra
> it was ... , note that the descender is a little longer", then the
> author is going to have to use images, or possibly font changes.

Completely agreed. I was thinking about major parallelism on the order of
simulaneous use of multiple scripts in near-entirety.

K




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