(24-09-2020, 01:41 PM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This thread, and the paper it discusses, cross the line from descriptive to normative. That makes me uncomfortable, as it should anyone who values objectivity in scientific and historical inquiry.
I just read the paper for the first time when the link was posted by bi3mw on another thread.
My reaction was, I think, similar to yours.
I wondered whether the author was seeing what he wanted to see in the translated text?
Also, as JKP says, the glyph shape correspondences between VMS and Pahlavi are not that similar.