Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Fred, 

The Wadi el-Hol inscriptions were indeed an important discovery in our
understanding of the development of the alphabet, but the rest of your post
is really not clear. What is your point? The "gap" between 1500 and 150 is
full of inscriptions in Canaanite, Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, Moabite and
so on.

Yigal Levin

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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&Articl
eID=06&Page=0&UserID=0
&


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&Articl
eID=06&Page=0&UserID=0
&


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
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