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http://www.lebaneselobby.org/News__index/news%202005/11%2009%2005%20A%20Is%20for%20Ancient,%20Describing%20an%20Alphabet%20Found%20Near%20Jerusalem%20By.htm
A comment in the article touches on a point recently discussed in this list:
"All successive alphabets in the ancient world, including the Greek
one, derive from this ancestor at Tel Zayit," Ron Tappy said.
The inscription was found in the context of a substantial network of buildings at the site, which led Dr. Tappy to propose that Tel Zayit was probably an important border town established by an expanding Israelite kingdom based in Jerusalem.
A border town of such size and culture, Dr. Tappy said, suggested a centralized bureaucracy, political leadership and literacy levels that seemed to support the biblical image of the unified kingdom of David and Solomon in the 10th century B.C.
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