geoffreycaveney's Judaeo-Greek theory

[geoffreycaveney]

I want to provide a sample here of a medieval Greek text written in the Hebrew script. It is not in the Yevanic / Judaeo-Greek dialect per se, but on the other hand we do not know, and I do not yet claim, that the Voynich MS was necessarily written in that dialect either. The Voynich MS could be in Greek, written by a Jewish person with Jewish cultural content, in a script that was based on or inspired by the Judaeo-Greek script, but still the underlying language could be Greek rather than Yevanic. We may need a lot more information to make a determination about such a detail.

I am still in the process of collecting and studying actual Judaeo-Greek / Yevanic texts. It will be a long and probably slow process. I never claimed to be a particular specialist in this dialect before I arrived at my hypothesis based on my analysis of the Voynich MS text. I am studying and learning, just as I hope we all are.

I have posted this sample here before, earlier in this thread. But it is relevant to the recent comments and discussion, so I post it again here now.

The two sides of the page are the same text, the left side in Hebrew script and the right side in Greek script. Yes, this text does write the vowel diacritic dots. But imagine what the text would look like without the diacritics, and consider the ambiguity of the letter aleph in particular without the diacritics, and all the different Greek vowels that would stand in the same places in the text that aleph does.

   

Geoffrey