With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

(JTA) — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably could not have imagined that her script would ...

Discover which Hebrew words we use in English and other facts about the language. Also available in Hebrew with audio.

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that Modern Hebrew emerged and became widely used by the Jews who settled in Israel. Pludwinski’s book surveys a wide range of writing samples, including an inscription on a stela, dated around 840 ...

As for Mr. Broome it is sufficient to say that he supposes the square Hebrew characters to constitute an independent alphabet of early origin, and the zodiac of Denderah to be “the oldest ...