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Re: Arabic at Qumran?

To: orion@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Subject: Re: Arabic at Qumran?
From: HuldrychZ@aol.com
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:08:23 -0400

In a message dated 96-04-10 10:44:48 EDT, you write:

>Arabic as we know it today did not exist, orthographicaly, at the time 
>the DSS were composed. Although S. Arabic (as opposed to North, or what 
>came to be Qur'anic Arabic) did have a script, it was not part of the DSS 
>tradition (sic.). The development of N. Arabic script occured in the 
>seventh century.

Sir,
Then why is a document in Arabic script deposited among the Wadi Murabbaat
documents from the time contemporaneous with Qumran?

Cf. PAM 42.089
PAM 42.090

Thanks,


Jim West

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