To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Hebrew with Aramaic, Phoenician etc in scholarly publications
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:47:38 -0400
>===== Original Message From Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com> =====
>But the question I asked was not what we think should be done, but what
>actually is done, or perhaps what would be done apart from purely
>mechanical typographical restrictions.
And that's the only reason that I resurrected the issue--because I think
we're
emerging from a set of constraints that have just recently been removed, and
it's hard to say which way things are going to go. As far as noting the
comparative data in a dictionary is concerned, my perspective is that
gobbledygook in transcription is still gobbledygook. If a person doesn't know
Ethiopic, an Ethiopic citation is not going to be terribly useful, whether
it's transcribed or not.