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The write stuff,
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. Science News. Vol. 143, March 6, 1993, p. 152.
SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites,
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, was an early form of Hebrew,
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, a controversial new analysis concludes.
Israelites living in Egypt transformed that civilization’s hieroglyphics into Hebrew 1.0 more than 3,
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,800 years ago, at a time when the Old Testament describes Jews living in Egypt,
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, says archaeologist and epigrapher Douglas Petrovich of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Hebrew speakers seeking a way to communicate in writing with other Egyptian Jews simplified the pharaohs’ complex hieroglyphic writing system into 22 alphabetic letters,
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, Petrovich proposed on November 17 at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
“There is a connection between ancient Egyptian texts and preserved alphabets,” Petrovich said.
That’s a highly controversial contention among scholars of the Bible and ancient civilizations. Many argue, despite what’s recounted in the Old Testament, that Israelites did not live in Egypt as long ago as proposed by Petrovich. Biblical dates for the Israelites’ stay in Egypt are unreliable,
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, they say.
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Alphabetic inscriptions on an ancient stone slab (left) have been identified by a researcher as Hebrew and translated. A drawing of the slab’s inscriptions (right) shows early Hebrew letters next to corresponding modern Hebrew letters (green). Inscriptions along the left edge of the slab translate as “The one having been elevated is weary to forget.” Inscriptions across the top translate as “The overseer of minerals,
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, Ahisemach.”
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