Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

very interesting indeed;

that the hieroglyph births the alefbet, by reason of need per one
archaeologist and by reason of desire per the other.

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=36&Issue=02&ArticleID=06&Page=0&UserID=0
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http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v28.n16/story4.html


http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=36&Issue=02&ArticleID=06&Page=0&UserID=0
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if so, then the gap between:

a.   1500 b.c., written language record,
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/smith_home.html

and

b. 150 b.c., written language record,
http://www.imj.org.il/shrine_center/Isaiah_Scrolling/index.html

is closing.

regards,

fred burlingame