Scholars have also generally assumed for more than 150 years that the oldest alphabetic script Petrovich studied could be based on any of a group of ancient Semitic languages,
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Petrovich’s Hebrew identification for the ancient inscriptions is starved for evidence, said biblical scholar and Semitic language specialist Christopher Rollston of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. There is no way to tell which of many Semitic languages are represented by the early alphabetic system,
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, Rollston contended.
The origins of writing in different parts of the world — including that of the alphabet carved into the Egyptian slabs — have long stimulated scholarly debates (
SN: 3/6/93, p. 152). A German scholar identified the ancient Egyptian writing as Hebrew in the 1920s. But he failed to identify many letters in the alphabet,
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, leading to implausible translations that were rejected by researchers.
Petrovich says his big break came in January 2012. While conducting research at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo,
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, he came across the word “Hebrews” in a text from 1874 B.C. that includes the earliest known alphabetic letter. According to the Old Testament,
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, Israelites spent 434 years in Egypt,
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, from 1876 B.C. to 1442 B.C.
Alphabet soup
A new description of Hebrew as the world’s oldest alphabet includes these proposed early Hebrew letters (middle),
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, with corresponding modern Hebrew letters (left) and Egyptian hieroglyphic sources for letters (right).
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