From djw AT reactor-core.org Thu Mar 27 03:29:52 2008Return-Path: <djw AT reactor-core.org>
You will notice, as the page states, that T, Q, Z, and D are replaced
in the inscription with the Greek letters ??, ??, ??, and ??. This
means that it would be hard to put it DIRECTLY into Hebrew characters,
unless you don't mind having a few Greek characters scattered
throughout. This can be demonstrated with the first word in the
inscription, which is (in Hebrew) ????????. Notice that instead of ??,
the author wrote K, backwards. There are other peculiarities of this
inscription. I would like to look at it later when I get back from
work. I am heading to work in a couple of minutes and will be gone all
day (working from 9:00 to 9:00). Hopefully this will still be
entertaining people this evening so that I won't forget to look more
plainly into this inscription, which seems really strange.
Yours,
Jason Hare
Rehovot, Israel
Ted Walther wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:26:11PM -0700, dwashbur AT nyx.net wrote:_______________________________________________
I found this line curious:
"...is convinced that the inscription is ancient and thus authentic."
What precisely does "authentic" mean in such a context?
Alas, the author of those words died in 2002. I guess he meant
"authentic" as in, the words were inscribed by a real Hebrew, not by a
prankster along the lines of Joseph Smith and his golden tablets.
I would love to see a transliteration of the inscription into modern
Hebrew letters so I can compare it to the Hebrew bible. Is anyone game?
How much would I have to pay?
Ted
On 25 Mar 2008 at 17:43, Ted Walther wrote:
Hello. I heard about the Los Lunas inscription of the ten commandments.[snip]
I see that nice photographs have been put up on the web. Here they are:
http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/loslunas.html
Dave Washburn
"I'll hold the nail. And when I nod my head, you hit it with the hammer."
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