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Re: yahad ostracon (fwd)
Avital,
Among other posts, I didn't save Fred's, which were what was driving the
other comments. I don't recall that he had anything to add to what he's
posted before, however.
Shalom,
David
David W. Suter
Saint Martin's College
Lacey, WA 98503
dsuter@stmartin.edu
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:50:58 -0500
From: Seth L Sanders <feste@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
To: orion@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Subject: Re: yahad ostracon (fwd)
> context; the one he mentions in the Cave 6 Gen. Apoc. text requires
> that we read the *word* before we read the *letter*: always a dubious
> procedure in epigraphical and palaeographical matters (i.e., the
It is a common and legitimate practice to allow a moderate amount of
feedback to take place between an expected reading and the physical
traces. Of course, a convincing reading of a difficult has to be
physically plausible, and is always open to dispute.
But for a disputing argument to succeed it has to advance a better
alternative. So far, the only _meaningful_ alternative I've seen is
Doudna's verbal reading. Ironically, it brings up the same issue as
Eshel's reading: what is the person joining?
I will wait for full publication before having an opinion.
> especially problematical in this issue because of the state of
> confusion in Qumran between the laryngals, and also because of the
> extensive use of digraphs.
How are digraphs relevant here? As you know, there are no medial digraphs
with het or he.
Seth