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Re: DSS in Hebrew, not in Rashi Script
Well, to continue Avigdor's thread, there is one valid reason for
calling the DSS script in question an "Aramaic", rather than a
"Hebrew" script, which is, that generally Aramaising tendencies are
discernible in the scripts of the southern Levant towards the second half
of the 1st millennium bce, as, for example, in Edom. To call this
"Hebraising" would be to assign to "Hebrew" culture (whatever that
could possibly mean) an influence on the surrounding region it did
not clearly possess. (Which doesn't mean that it did not exercise
such an influence; merely that it would be difficult to demonstrate
it).
Fred Cryer