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Re: orion-list photo
> Forwarded on behalf of David Suter:
>
> >Has anyone looked at the script in the photo on the web site
> > (http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?s2=world&f=000415/260606.html)?
> >I copied it to my computer and
> > opened it in in Kodak Imaging, which displayed it full screen at
> >100%. Some of the characters could be
> > Paleo-Hebrew and other Aramaic script, but is it Hebrew?
I fiddled with it a little in Micrografix Picture Publisher, zomming,
lightening, etc. and there do seem to be a few recurring characters
that look somewhat Hebrew, most notably a square-script qoph
and possibly a few examples of daleth in a Qumran-type script. I
didn't see any characters that I can definitely identify as paleo-
Hebrew script, and there were many that simply appear to be some
sort of gibberish. At least one potential beth was backward, and a
couple of characters in the first line appear to be crude attempts to
mimic something paleo-Hebrew without real success. It looks like
a hoax to me, and the caption's blatant statement that the
inscription is 2300 years old makes it immediately suspect to me.
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name.
Psalm 86:11
For private reply, e-mail to "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur@nyx.net>
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