...It may seem absurd, but it is demonstrably true. The Samaritan script is based on the pre-exilic palaeo-Hebrew. But the later Hebrew is based on the already divergent script in use in Babylonia etc during the time of the Exile, and which was presumably brought back from there by the returning exiles.
To the point - My question: The samaritan script? It surely must have been
the assyrian script as well? Sice the people that were moved to Northern
Israel at the time of its emptying of hebrews were from Assyria and Chaldea
right? So they would have brought their writing with them? I have a
document before me that gives the impression that the samaritans adopted the
old aramaic/proto hebrew - which seems totally absurd!
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