The Origins of the Hebrew Alphabet: Archaeological studies of ancient scripts from the Western Levant
A few fragments, scattered across centuries of history and different geographic locations, are all that is left of the ancient scripts from which today's Hebrew Alphabet (ketav ashuri) emerged.
| Topics: | Aleph-Beit, Jewish History, Archeology; Anthropology, Holy Tongue; Hebrew |
Yuval Yekutieli is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near East, at Ben-Gurion University. He recieved his PhD from Ben Gurion University in 1999.
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