From: "Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT mail.javanet.com>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Assyrian Hebrew?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 06:52:33 -0400
Henry Churchyard wrote
> But I can tell you how the word "Assyrian" actually has some remote
> shadow of relevance in all this -- it comes from the fact that the
> early Rabbis sometimes termed the Aramaic (or "square") alphabet as
> the "Assyrian" alphabet.
That is how the "sqare" alphabet is referred to in the Talmud.