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QUOTE(soren @ Feb 12 2008, 08:12 AM) 
That is conceivable but unlikely. Reformed Egyptian script was shorter in
length than Hebrew, and so would almost certainly have been a hieroglyphic
script. Hebrew is a very short script itself because it has no vowels and
only consonant are written. If reformed Egyptian takes less space on a plate
than Hebrew, it would have to have an even denser alphabet, which, since the
language comes from Egypt, is probably not phonetic but heiroglyphic. Yet
hieroglyphs do not represent more than one spoken language. You can’t spell
Hebrew words with Egyptian pictures. All you can do is represent Egyptian
words, unless you assume there is verbal equivalence between Hebrew and
Egyptian, which there isn’t.
Sorry, but this is simply nonsense. There are numerous consonantal signs in
hieroglyphics, including biliteral and triliteral signs--that is, characters
representing clusters of two or three consonants. Furthermore, Egyptians were
perfectly capable of writing foreign words and proper names in
hieroglyphics--there are numerous examples, including the names Jerusalem and
Israel.
Finally, it is crucial to keep in mind the distinction between script and
language. Reformed Egyptian is a script (set of written symbols). In
principle, any script can be used to write any language. See, for example,
Psalm 20 written in Egyptian script:
Charles F. Nims, Richard C. Steiner "A Paganized Version of Psalm 20:2-6
from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script" Journal of the American
Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1, (Jan. - Mar., 1983), pp. 261-274.
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