Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

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
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