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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Unit of Translation
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:31:05 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: "Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>
> ...
>
> NB IT is interesting to note that the ancients put no divisions in
> their texts to
> indicate where one word stops and another word ends.

Some did, some didn’t. Some were inconsistant. Examples of indicators between
words is found in some texts as early as proto-Sinaitic, and they are lacking
in texts centuries later.

Karl W. Randolph.

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