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Re: yahad ostracon (fwd)
> the context is broken and hence useless. Like a fair amount of this
> sort of thing, the "yahad" reading is extra-linguistic: not grounded
> in the facts of language, but in suppositions about the historical
> and social context of the find which have in turn influenced the
> reading. This is not to say that the reading is out of the question,
Fred: could you specify what the "facts of language" are in this case, as
opposed to "the historical and social context of the find?"
-Seth
Seth L. Sanders
Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
The Johns Hopkins University