Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Banyai AT t-online.de (Michael Banyai)]

Dear Walter,

this is the tipycal non-argument:
 The problem ? The earliest
> Hebrew script from an archaeological context is the 10th century BCE Gezer
> agricultural calendar (cf. p. 96. Vol. 3. Mark D. McLean. "Hebrew Scripts."
> David Noel Freedman, editor. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Doubleday. N.Y.
> 1992).
> 
> If Moses wrote the Exodus ca. the 15th century BCE as suggested by 1 Kings
> 6:1, there does not exist yet a Hebrew inscription from that period of time,
> nor does there exist a Hebrew script from the 13th-12th century Ramesside
> era. 

You are simply making a grave confusion between the artificial name of some 
alphabeth (there were many others earlier in Palestine being labelled on 
preconceived grounds - proto-canaanitic or canaanitic, etc.) and the very 
"nationality" of the people(s) who were using it. 

It still remains a matter of debate who this "proto-canaanites" or canaanites 
were. Or are you supposing there is a correspondence between the alphabets 
name "proto-canaanitic" and the name of some people in Palestine-Israel the 
"Proto-Canaanites"?

Are gotical characters an attribute of the Goths? If yes, than which of them? 
Are Italica used by Italians and Bodoni by the Bodonians?

Well, I doubt there ever existed such a name at the time.

All the best,

Michael Bányai
Stuttgart