[SunkenCiv]

an update.

[Moose Burger]

You don’t invent writing just because; if you do it, it’s that you needed some kind of register ability for your daily chores. “...a desire to articulate their own thoughts in writing” is not enough. Motives. I want motives.

[Raycpa]

If teenagers can invent an alphabet to text with, miners can certainly invent an alphabet to keep records.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed, was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in the turquoise mines..."

Um...I would think everybody was illiterate until somebody invented an alphabet...

[Grizzled Bear]

In his letter Rainey argues that the alphabet was surely created by "highly sophisticated Northwest Semites" who inscribed countless papyrus sheets that have not survived.

Gee...this sounds a lot like the evolutionist argument.

[D Rider]

In regards to Hebrew the author wrote “The pictorial meaning “house” is always discarded.” This is not true. Hebrew consists of not only sounds but pictures that when grouped together make complex ideas. The real question is which came first the written or the oral hebrew. Here is an example of how it works. ABBA is written aleph beth, that is the picture “bull+house” bull = strength, leader. Ie... leader or strength of the house otherwise known as Father. The whole language is that way. It is really quite fascinating.