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Posted on 11/21/2016 6:08:57 AM PST by C19fan
he world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes.
Israelites living in Egypt transformed that civilization’s hieroglyphics into Hebrew 1.0 more than 3,800 years ago, at a time when the Old Testament describes Jews living in Egypt, says archaeologist and epigrapher Douglas Petrovich of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Hebrew speakers seeking a way to communicate in writing with other Egyptian Jews simplified the pharaohs’ complex hieroglyphic writing system into 22 alphabetic letters, Petrovich proposed on November 17 at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
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I found it! I found it!
What?! What?!
Nothing! Nothing!
So can we stop teaching that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet?
Some texts reached Western Europe first in the form of translations from Arabic to Latin, but I can’t think of any ancient Greek texts known only from medieval Arabic translations. If there are any it’s only a minute proportion of what has been preserved. The Arabs were interested in certain genres only, not in Greek literature generally.
I remember a story some time back about some characters found inscribed in the Egyptian desert which were thought to be the ancestors of the letters of the Phoenician alphabet. I don’t think there is any difference between the Phoenician alphabet and the early Hebrew alphabet (before the Jews began using the Aramaic forms of the letters). Anyway, weren’t the Israelites concentrated in the Land of Goshen?
I remember a story some time back about some characters found inscribed in the Egyptian desert which were thought to be the ancestors of the letters of the Phoenician alphabet. I don’t think there is any difference between the Phoenician alphabet and the early Hebrew alphabet (before the Jews began using the Aramaic forms of the letters). Anyway, weren’t the Israelites concentrated in the Land of Goshen?
I always thought the Phoenicians developed the alphabet and the Hebrews got it from them.l.Could it be the other way?
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