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Sunday, October 01, 2017
Scribal errors, cakes, and Phoenician
BIBLICAL LANGUAGES: Scribal Errors and Decorative Cakes (Phillip Marshall). These involve decorative cakes whose inscriptions accidentally included instructions about the cake. They are very amusing. For a similar case in Phoenician on a rather more durable medium than cake, see here.
