Notes on the Hebrew text and the topography of the books of Samuel; with an introduction on Hebrew palaeography and the ancient versions and facsimiles of inscriptions and maps . gh some of the Siloam characters do resemble thelater, rather than the earlier, examples of the older script (see, inLidzbarskis Plate XLVI, Table III, the parallel cross strokes of theK, the T, the curving tail in 3, D, J, and D, and the disappearance ofthe left-hand upright stroke of the x), they are still substantially ofthe archaic type, and there is no appreciable approximation to thesquare type. The Samaritan ch
Notes on the Hebrew text and the topography of the books of Samuel; with an introduction on Hebrew palaeography and the ancient versions and facsimiles of inscriptions and maps . gh some of the Siloam characters do resemble thelater, rather than the earlier, examples of the older script (see, inLidzbarskis Plate XLVI, Table III, the parallel cross strokes of theK, the T, the curving tail in 3, D, J, and D, and the disappearance ofthe left-hand upright stroke of the x), they are still substantially ofthe archaic type, and there is no appreciable approximation to thesquare type. The Samaritan character, as stated in the passages quoted abovefrom the Talmud and the Fathers, preserves in all essential featuresthe old Hebrew type, the modifications being confined to details, andoriginally, no doubt, being merely calligraphic variations:— In Palestine the old Hebrew character was used regularly on coins,from the earliest Sheqels and half-Sheqels struck by Simon Maccabaeus( 141-135) to those of the Great Revolt, 65-68, and of SimonBar-cochab, 132-135*. The example (Fig. 7) is a Sheqel of thethird year (3 C : JiJCr) of Simon Maccabaeus:— Fig. r\m^\>r\ n^^cn- (From Maddens Coins of the Jews, p. 68, No. 5.) As characters that were entirely unknown would evidently not besuitable for use upon coins, it may be inferred that though in the timeof Christ the older character had been generally superseded (for the \Matth. 5, 18, is by no means the smallest letter in the old alphabet),it was still known, and could be read without difficulty. Madden, Coins of the Jews (ed. 3, 1881), pp. 67 ff., 198 ff., 233 ff. xii Introduction In the characters represented hitherto, no tendency to modificationin the direction of the modern square type has been observable. Sucha tendency first manifests itself in the Aramaic alphabet, and may betraced most distinctly in Aramaic Inscriptions from Egypt. Plate IIIis a facsimile of the Carpentras stele V a monument carved in
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