Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Trevor Peterson <06PETERSON AT cua.edu>]

>===== Original Message From Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com> =====
>But the question I asked was not what we think should be done, but what
>actually is done, or perhaps what would be done apart from purely
>mechanical typographical restrictions.

And that's the only reason that I resurrected the issue--because I think 
we're 
emerging from a set of constraints that have just recently been removed, and 
it's hard to say which way things are going to go. As far as noting the 
comparative data in a dictionary is concerned, my perspective is that 
gobbledygook in transcription is still gobbledygook. If a person doesn't know 
Ethiopic, an Ethiopic citation is not going to be terribly useful, whether 
it's transcribed or not.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics