Oldest alphabet identified as Hebrew

Science News ^ | November 19, 2016 | Bruce Bower

[SkyDancer]

As one Arab said to another when he invented the "zero"

I found it! I found it!

What?! What?!

Nothing! Nothing!

[Berosus]

So can we stop teaching that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet?

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

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?

[Verginius Rufus]

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?

[Unam Sanctam]

I always thought the Phoenicians developed the alphabet and the Hebrews got it from them.l.Could it be the other way?

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 11/21/2016. Thanks C19fan.