Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Hi Karl,

 

You wrote (among other things:

 

 

"My number one objection to that belief is that there is absolutely no

historical evidence to back it up. None whatsoever. That includes the

claim that the ancient Hebrews didn’t have an alphabetic writing

system until late, while the historical evidence points to that the

ancient Hebrews brought their alphabetic system to Canaan around 1400

BC with Joshua, only later picked up by the Phoenicians. Did the

patriarchs already use an alphabet? No reason to say that they didn’t."

 

 

What evidence do you have that the Patriarchs wrote at all? Where does the Bible mention their writing? Why would you expect pastoral nomads to write? Or slaves, for that matter. If they wrote at all, the Patriarchs would have written in Canaanite and the Israelite slaves in Egyptian.

 

 

Yigal Levin