medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In a message dated 10/11/2006 17:11:53 GMT Standard Time,
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<<Or is the problem something else that has been called an alpha/aleph but
looks
more like an X? In Hebrew orthography, it is quite possible for aleph to
have the
X like form. That makes perfect sense. Thus aleph (Hebrew first letter), not
alpha (Greek first letter). With oxes and such thrown in for goo measure.>>
No, that's no my problem.
The A I have is very ornate and in my ignorance I said that it did not look
like the [clean-lined] alpha I am familiar with. It was only because
Reginald Hill said it was an aleph (not my image but one all but identical) that I
wondered about it. I have not been able to find any other representation of
aleph that looks like his -- but he did talk about the ox imagery of the
aleph, which suggests that he was talking about aleph even if the picture was not
an aleph.
John Briggs may well be right, that Hill is confused.
Susan
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