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- From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
- To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: synagogues) in Thessalonika
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:40:23 -0400
At 08:47 AM 9/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Not having read the work cited in your reply to Jeffrey's, could you please
>clarify whether "Samaritan" is the term used by your source, or is your
>interpretive description of this script.
The source of my information is the ABD. s.v. Thessalonica, last 2
paragraphs.
>
>The reason I ask is that, as far as I know, the only difference in *script*
>between Samaritan and Jewish Hebrew is the standard use of paleo-Hebrew
>characters by the Samaritans. Still, it is not unknown in Jewish circles
>either, notably among the Qumran texts and on coins of the Jewish revolts.
>Coin scripts often share characteristics of inscription scripts. What I
>think would characterize an inscription as "Samaritan" would be the use of
>"long" orthography.
There is another distinguishing characteristic which may identify a
"Samaritan" provenance for an inscription: i.e., if the quotation follows
the Sam. Pent. I believe that the inscription mentioned does follow the
Sam. Pent. Which would indicate a Samaritan community.
>
>Could not this inscription have been made, with just as much liklihood, by
>a Jewish group which favored paleo-Hebrew script for formal inscriptions?
I suppose it could. Unless it includes a text form which adheres to the
Sam. Pent.
>The only factor arguing against this, from the information you relayed, is
>the attribution of the inscription to the 4-6th century, as I would think
>the use of paleo-Hebrew among Jews would have pretty much died out by the
>end of the 2nd century.
Agreed.
Best,
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
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-
synagogues) in Thessalonika,
Jeffrey B. Gibson, 09/20/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: synagogues) in Thessalonika, Jim West, 09/20/1999
- Re: synagogues) in Thessalonika, Craig de Vos, 09/21/1999
- RE: synagogues) in Thessalonika, David C. Hindley, 09/21/1999
- RE: synagogues) in Thessalonika, Jim West, 09/21/1999
- RE: synagogues) in Thessalonika, David C. Hindley, 09/21/1999
- Re: synagogues) in Thessalonika, Edgar Krentz, 09/21/1999
- Re: synagogues) in Thessalonika, Frank W. Hughes, 09/21/1999
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