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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Will Parsons <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, nir AT ccet.ufrn.br
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] akkadian bible?
  • Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 18:39:10 -0400

Indeed! Even latter day Hebrew script, as we have it just now before us, is cuneiform. 
This is why the novice reader so easily confuses the letters ד D and ר R, consisting both 
of only two similarly oriented wedges. Also the letters ה H and the ח X consisting 
both of only three similarly oriented wedges (with only a tiny gap to distinguish between them). 

This also, some say, is the reason why אחד EXAD ("our God is one") is written with an 
enlarged ד D: to clearly distinguish it from ר R, and אחר AXER, 'another'. 

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Apr 9, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Will Parsons wrote:

 the narrative was written in "cuneiform", i.e., Canaanite/Hebrew written

in cuneiform script, not Akkadian written in cuneiform





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