RE: numerology

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 01:15:56 -0700

CLiff Lundberg wrote: I thought the Greeks got their alphabet from Phoenician traders, who were Hebraic people. How do we know the Phoenicians and their semitic relatives didn't know the trick of using letters for numbers? Is there a body of early Greek written material sufficient to show
that alphabetic numeration was not used prior to 600 BC?>>

I have been wonder as well about the statements made by Vernon. How do we know all this ? Some of the websites on this topic suggest that numerology is as old as the language itself.

It would be nice to find some references.