Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Why Semitic languages had no written vowels?


> Where was writing first used? Was it stone inscriptions, or was it pen on 
> leather? If the latter, the lack of dots had more to do with the shape of 
> the letters which
> discouraged the use of dots, than with the writing instruments used.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.


On small pottery tokens used for counting or inventory of measures of 
good/grain/cattle.  I cover some of this at:

http://www.historian.net/hxwrite.htm


Jack