|..... For example, aleph
| looks like a simply-stylized vulture. Am I reading too much into this? Has
| this already been brought up? Is it possible that some of the Hebrew
| letters, being Semetic, are somehow linguistically and morphologically
| related to the Egyptian hieroglyphs? Am I just crazy? Thanks, Matthew
| Miller
Matthew, which script are you looking at? If you are looking at the square
Aramaic script
in out printed Bibles, then it is a much later development of script and
there would
definitely be nothing in common with hieroglyphs. Are you looking at the old
Phoenician
script, or Sinaitic script?
Best regards,
GEORGE ATHAS
(Sydney, Australia)
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