4 ms·

Wow, you're pretty good, I tried reading it but totally failed. 14th c. cursive hebrew looks more like modern arabic than modern cursive hebrew.

yieldcrv 3y ago
almost as if nevermind
- names_are_hard 3y ago
  Almost as if what? If you have something substantive to say, say it. It's not a secret that Hebrew and Arabic share a common ancestor, and that the languages are related. It's also not a secret that Arabic played significant role in Jewish history, some very meaningful works of Jewish literature were originally written in Arabic before being translated to Hebrew. I'm really not sure what you were trying to get at with your cryptic comment.
  - fsckboy 3y ago
    just to clarify what you said, Hebrew and Arabic languages have a common ancestor, but also Hebrew and Arabic writing also have a common answer. It's something of a rule of thumb that languages are spoken (most people for most of history were fluent and illiterate) and languages are not writing systems, although for many extinct languages the writing is all we have to go on.
  - yieldcrv 3y ago
    lots of semites deny the idea of millennia of crossdrift amongst semitic communities, culturally, genetically, linguistically, never really thinking about it, including perhaps font choices. I see it all day every day, I can give examples if that’s an absurdity in your world it was the substantive thing to say, I’m glad you got it and my comment prompted your inference, I wouldn’t have wanted to be responsible for pointing out that solved mystery
shmerl 3y ago
It's a common cursive for Sefardic tradition and also is commonly used in modern printing for commentaries. Modern Hebrew cursive is based on Ashkenazic one, that's why it's different.
noam_k 3y ago
I wasn't able to read most of it either, but was able to find that specific phrase.
FergusArgyll 3y ago
to me, it looks similar to Rambam's (Maimonides) signature

yieldcrv 3y ago

almost as if nevermind

names_are_hard 3y ago
Almost as if what? If you have something substantive to say, say it. It's not a secret that Hebrew and Arabic share a common ancestor, and that the languages are related. It's also not a secret that Arabic played significant role in Jewish history, some very meaningful works of Jewish literature were originally written in Arabic before being translated to Hebrew. I'm really not sure what you were trying to get at with your cryptic comment.
- fsckboy 3y ago
  just to clarify what you said, Hebrew and Arabic languages have a common ancestor, but also Hebrew and Arabic writing also have a common answer. It's something of a rule of thumb that languages are spoken (most people for most of history were fluent and illiterate) and languages are not writing systems, although for many extinct languages the writing is all we have to go on.
- yieldcrv 3y ago
  lots of semites deny the idea of millennia of crossdrift amongst semitic communities, culturally, genetically, linguistically, never really thinking about it, including perhaps font choices. I see it all day every day, I can give examples if that’s an absurdity in your world it was the substantive thing to say, I’m glad you got it and my comment prompted your inference, I wouldn’t have wanted to be responsible for pointing out that solved mystery

shmerl 3y ago

It's a common cursive for Sefardic tradition and also is commonly used in modern printing for commentaries. Modern Hebrew cursive is based on Ashkenazic one, that's why it's different.

noam_k 3y ago

I wasn't able to read most of it either, but was able to find that specific phrase.

FergusArgyll 3y ago

to me, it looks similar to Rambam's (Maimonides) signature