Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

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