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Re: Rune/Hebrew

From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
To: gs02wmr AT panther.Gsu.EDU
Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Rune/Hebrew
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:02:25 -0400

At 12:54 PM 10/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I was looking over some old forms of alphabets, and came across "Rune" or
>"Runic" I suppose, archaic German?

No- more like very archaic scandinavian.

>
>Are they in any way influenced by Aramaic or ancient Hebrew letters?

not in the least.

Best,

Jim

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Rune/Hebrew, gs02wmr, 10/05/1999
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