5 ms·

So where can I read the manuscripts? Is there an english translation available? Searched for half an hour and didn’t find anything..

sb057 6y ago
Page 37 (PDF numbering) of this 1958 research paper reproduces a version published in an 1883 issue of 'The Athenaeum': http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1958/reference/wi.wt1958.mmansoor.pdf http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1958/...
- TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
  For anyone clicking through and scrolling to page 37: this is in Hebrew, not English. I don’t see an English translation there.
  - dogma1138 6y ago
    That’s not Hebrew technically either it uses the Phoenician alphabet or a variation of it. I can read the Dead Sea scrolls I can’t read what ever this is :(
    - marshmallow_12 6y ago
      it is Hebrew, just in a now defunct script. I didn't see anything majorly informative in the transcription, in case you were wondering.
      - dogma1138 6y ago
        Well it’s not Hebrew, the Hebrew alphabet is based on Aramaic in fact it’s essentially identical to “square” aka western Aramaic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic Before that proto/paleo-Hebrew used the same Canaanite scripts that were common in the region, the closest thing we have to that today is Samaritan.
        cwzwarich 6y ago
        Even in rabbinic Hebrew, the name for this script is כתב עברי (Hebrew writing), and the name for the script used today is כתב אשורית (Assyrian writing).
        marshmallow_12 6y ago
        i meant that Hebrew has several scripts.
        Perenti 6y ago
        Pre-captivity Hebrew used the Phoenician alphabet, post exile the Chaldean (square) one.
marshmallow_12 6y ago
find any transalations into modern hebrew script?
- TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
  ... or English?
dotancohen 6y ago
They seem to have been lost over a century ago. There was no interest in preserving them, as they were assumed to be forgeries.

sb057 6y ago

Page 37 (PDF numbering) of this 1958 research paper reproduces a version published in an 1883 issue of 'The Athenaeum': http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1958/reference/wi.wt1958.mmansoor.pdf http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1958/...

TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
For anyone clicking through and scrolling to page 37: this is in Hebrew, not English. I don’t see an English translation there.
- dogma1138 6y ago
  That’s not Hebrew technically either it uses the Phoenician alphabet or a variation of it. I can read the Dead Sea scrolls I can’t read what ever this is :(
  - marshmallow_12 6y ago
    it is Hebrew, just in a now defunct script. I didn't see anything majorly informative in the transcription, in case you were wondering.
    - dogma1138 6y ago
      Well it’s not Hebrew, the Hebrew alphabet is based on Aramaic in fact it’s essentially identical to “square” aka western Aramaic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic Before that proto/paleo-Hebrew used the same Canaanite scripts that were common in the region, the closest thing we have to that today is Samaritan.
      - cwzwarich 6y ago
        Even in rabbinic Hebrew, the name for this script is כתב עברי (Hebrew writing), and the name for the script used today is כתב אשורית (Assyrian writing).
        marshmallow_12 6y ago
        i meant that Hebrew has several scripts.
      - Perenti 6y ago
        Pre-captivity Hebrew used the Phoenician alphabet, post exile the Chaldean (square) one.

marshmallow_12 6y ago

find any transalations into modern hebrew script?

TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
... or English?

dotancohen 6y ago

They seem to have been lost over a century ago. There was no interest in preserving them, as they were assumed to be forgeries.