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  • From: Brian Roberts <formoria AT carolina.rr.com>
  • To: Jack Kilmon <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Exodus and Hebrew Language
  • Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:42:18 -0400

What exactly IS proto-Canaanite? What I meant to say is: how does one look at three inscriptions - one Canaanite, one Hebrew, and one "proto-Canaanite" and visually distinguish the latter from the first two? How large is the corpus of proto-Canaanite script?

Best Salaams,

Brian Roberts


On Saturday, May 29, 2004, at 05:59 PM, Jack Kilmon wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Roberts" <formoria AT carolina.rr.com>
To: "Walter R. Mattfeld" <mattfeld12 AT charter.net>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Exodus and Hebrew Language


Walter,

You're forgetting the Izbet Sartah ostracon. (Naveh 1982), which is
arguably 13th-11th century.

I am not sure what it is that makes the Izbet Sartah inscription Hebrew.
The script is proto-Canaanite. Is it considered Israelite because the
abecedary had..or was supposed to have..22 letters? Hebrew is a language
that used the Canaanite script and some centuries later, adopted the Aramaic
script...but a script is not a language, is not a culture. This ostracon
could have been the exercise of a Philistine child learning Canaanite.
Maybe there is something I am missing here.

Jack






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