At 14:55 29/09/98 BST, you wrote:
>Michael means 'Who is like God?' with a question-mark (as
>I hope the Michaels on our list will not resent my pointing
>out)...Michaelmas thanks to you, Oriens, for brightening and
>illuminating our days. Mary
>
Thank you. And how encouraging to receive praise from such a distinguished
contributer! Do you belong to the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages
list? I do, but I go for weeks without receiving any postings on it, which
makes me wonder if it's still going.
As to question marks: they didn't, of course, have such things in ancient
Hebrew script. I don't have enough Hebrew to know if they distinguished
between relative and interrogative pronouns - No doubt Bob Kraft could tell
us.
Oriens.
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