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To: jjotto

And you, of course know that what is called the Hebrew alphabet, i.e., the Hebrew letters, are actually Aramaic. The language is most often Hebrew, but the alphabet is Aramaic.


23 posted on 10/01/2011 8:42:51 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Austrian achievement: convincing world that Hitler was German and Beethoven Austrian)
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To: Pharmboy

Well, the characters are called Ashurit - Assyrian, and they are different from the older script called Ivrit - Hebrew (Paleo-Hebrew). The Assyrian would be a form of Aramaic.

There are many scholarly discussions, secular and religious (including the Talmud), about the relationship between the two scripts.


24 posted on 10/01/2011 8:58:28 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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And there’s this old thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1598792/posts


25 posted on 10/01/2011 9:17:28 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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