Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bill Rea <bsr15 AT cantsl.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Karl wrote:-

>Are you sure that I am the first person in 2,000 years to read the Bible
>in paleo-Hebrew glyphs? That thought never crossed my mind when I started
>until you mentioned it, and now that I have completed at least one time
>through I find I prefer those glyphs to the modern ones.  However, as
>being something special, I view it as no different than reading an
>unpointed text, and plenty of people have done that, unless I^m mistaken.
>All I^ve done is to print modern Hebrew to the screen in paleo-Hebrew
>glyphs.

I thought the Samaritans still used the paleo-Hebrew script. Maybe they
don't count because they only have the five books of Moses in their
own version.

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