Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

Get Ada Yardeni's book, The Book of Hebrew Script.  Nothing finer than 
it for exactly the questions you ask.  And it corrects your 
misapprehensions.

Best,

Jim


chioma yisrael wrote:
> I am studying the ancient biblical alphabet in a
> Biblical Studies course and would like to know what
> evidence points to the original Hebrew language. In
> the documents circulated of the Dead Sea Scrolls there
> are several forms shown. Most of the alphabets I have
> seen have the aleph beginning with what appears to be
> the letter n; from my understanding, in the original
> Hebrew language the aleph begins with what appears to
> be shaped like an F.
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Jim West, ThD

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