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Hello, I believe this would be useful because the Hebrew is just extremely hard to read and it doesn't necessarily need to be that way. In fact, there is a long history of Jews writing in the Arabic script because it's easier on the eyes like Maimonides ( Judeo-Arabic too); I don't really understand why they can't do this for seminaries or just lay people because there is a long history of Arabic to Greek and Greek to Arabic translation. There's also probably a billion people worldwide who use the Arabic script such as Urdu people, Sudanese, Pakistanis that would be able to read it more easily than trying to learn the Hebrew alphabet. For my own study in particular, if I can look up a word in Arabic, notice it's a cognate and compare it to Greek, it's way faster than checking if I'm reading it right in Hebrew as the letters are so similar they are almost indistinguishable. For example, the CPH commentaries would be orders of magnitude easier to study as a layperson and look up words etc.
Judeo-Arabic script
Information about version of the Hebrew alphabet used to write the Judeo-Arabic language
www.omniglot.com
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