Randall:
There is no question that the alphabet was used by “Asiatics” (Hebrews) in
Egypt before the Exodus, how long before that we don’t know. Moses then
wrote Torah long after we have evidence of alphabetic use. That would
indicate that the Phoenicians learned the alphabet from the Hebrews rather
than the other way around.
That the alphabet used did not distinguish between the sin and the shin
indicates that they were considered the same phoneme by Moses and earlier
“Asiatic” writers.
As for comparative linguistics and the influence of other languages on
Hebrew before Moses, that is pure speculation with no evidence to back it
up.
As for changes in the post-Biblical ages, we have some evidence with which
we can work.
Karl W. Randolph.
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