Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Yitzhak:

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:32 PM, K Randolph wrote:
> > Yitzhak:
> >
> >> No, it is not.  See for example the Use Agreement at
> >> http://www.inscriptifact.com/
>
> > For the list, the images are 1) for study purposes, [...]
>
> Karl, I think the license agreement that I sent is pretty clear on
> prohibiting any
> kind of reduplication without explicit permission.


While this license agreement is far more restrictive than fair use law (at
least U.S. law), it still allows a professor to republish images on handouts
to use in class, and in short comments used in journals. It also says
nothing about not sending the images to others as attachments to emails,
though the images may not be posted online.


>  Incidentally, you might consider filling out the form and faxing it in...
>

Definitely. Will they accept B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org> as an
institution?

>
> >> This is really interesting, because I consider the Gezer calendar to be
> in
> >> a possibly cognate language.
>
> I'm going to interject here and ask that you explain why you think the
> Gezer
> calendar to be in Hebrew and not in a cognate language.  This will help me
> in
> other cases of possibly Hebrew possibly cognate language inscriptions.
>

I see no clear signs that it is a cognate language.


> I see you did not respond to the examples from Lachish 3.
>

How can I comment on something I have not seen? What about the rest of
Lachish?

>
> As for Siloam and Gezer, I also see your reading is extremely different
> from
> anything I would consider.  Can you please give your transcription and
> translation for these?


Transcription? To what? Except where damaged, the Siloam inscription is
clear Hebrew script and I have never translated it. The shapes of the
letters in the Gezar calendar are more uneven, but still clear.


>  I don't know if you complete lacunae in any particular
> way, but if you
> do, I'd appreciate it if you included the text you suggest for the lacunae.
>

In general, I don’t suggest text for the lacunae.

>
> Thanks.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
>
> Karl W. Randolph.