Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Kevin Riley" <klriley AT alphalink.com.au>]

The info on the Ugaritic alphabet comes from P T Daniel's  "Scripts of
Semitic Languages" in R Hetzron's "The Semitic Languages".  I have read
parts of the book 2 or 3 times but never thought to read this chapter before
until this dispute over the Hebrew alphabet came up.  I also received a
relatively new book yesterday: Henry Rogers' "Writing Systems: A Linguistic
Approach" (2005) which looks like it will be a good book to read.  It has a
lot of theory on how writing systems work.

Kevin Riley
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Dave Washburn
Date: 11/10/05 11:32:17
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Tel Zayit Abecedary
 
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 16:01, Kevin Riley wrote:
> I think the article contains a few badly written sentences.  Someone
> brought up about all the alphabets being descended from the one found.
> Presumably what is meant is that all the alphabets descend from the
> 'Phoenician' alphabet, of which this is the earliest reliably dated
> example.  Even that may not be entirely what is meant as there are
> abecedary from Sinai and Ugarit that definitely predate this one, even if
> their dating is not so exact.  On the point of the 'drinking vessel' I
> believe what is meant is that this stone vessel held the drink and it
would
> have been removed and drunk in smaller containers.  It was the punch bowl
> rather than the cup, if you like.
 
I like the nephilim explanation better :-D
 
> While on alphabets, I discovered that the Ugaritic alphabet existed in two
> forms - the 27 letter form used in Ugarit and a 22 letter form used
outside
> the town but within Ugaritic controlled territory.
[snip]
 
Where did you find this info?
 
--
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Maybe I'll trade it for a new hat."
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