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  • From: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] spaces between words
  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:25:53 +1100

Hi Steve,

A related issue is that of word dividers in some other Semitic languages. Interesting reading is:

Horwitz, William J. 1971. “Graphemic Representation of Word Boundary: The Small Vertical Wedge in Ugaritic.” PhD diss., Yale University.

Robertson, Anne F. 1993. “Word Dividers, Spot Markers, and Clause Markers in Old Assyrian, Ugaritic, and Egyptian Texts: Sources for Understanding the Use of Red Ink Points in the Two Akkadian Literary Texts, Adapa and Ereshkigal, Found in Egypt.” PhD diss., New York University.

Do any of the Hebrew inscriptions display lack of division of words by spaces?

Regards,
David Kummerow,



The DSS that I have seen have spaces between words.

Why is it commonly said that there were no spaces between words in the
ancient Hebrew manuscripts? Is there a basis for this?



Thanks,

-Steve Miller

Detroit

www.voiceInWilderness.info <http://www.voiceinwilderness.info/>






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