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[edit] Possible dating error in the article.

I think the article means BC instead of BCE in these dates.

"BC" and "BCE" are the same thing. Scholars are now using "BCE" instead of "BC".

See Before Christ and Before Common Era. -- ALoan (Talk) 17:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No image???

Why not add a picture of the alpahbet??? TRIKER1 21:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this article needs an image! --Bkkbrad 02:33, 27 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] The Ancient Alphabet Hebrew according to ancient Hebrew sources

Remember the Hebrew ancient literature, is commonly look down at, if written the Greeks, Egyptians, or Romans more people would listen.--72.38.211.144 (talk) 00:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

In line with the Tanakh:--72.38.211.144 (talk) 00:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


Circa 1473 B.C.E. is the date the Book of Job was completed, it covers a span time from, 1657 to before 1613, the Book of Job, was recorded by Moses* thus the ancient Hebrew* who read this in ancient Hebrew script.--72.38.211.144 (talk) 00:00, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


  • According to the oldest tradition, among both Jewish and early Christian scholars. The vigorous authentic style of Hebrew poetry used in the book of Job makes it evident that it was an original composition in Hebrew, the language of Moses. It could not have been a translation from another language such as Arabic. Also, the portions in prose bear stronger resemblance to the Pentateuch than to any other writings in the Bible. And Job lived at the same time after Jospeh death.--72.38.211.144 (talk) 00:00, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
  • The date of Job must at have been between circa. 1553 B.C.E to 1513 B.C.E

The would mean that the ancient Semitic hebrew-script predated the common scholarally estimate of the start of the Canaanite script, which probably as their langauage, (a Northern dialect of diplomatic language of the entire Middle East at the time) was also adopted, is without quite similar to the ancient Phoenician writing this proper term is akin.--72.38.211.144 (talk) 00:00, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


  • Exodus 17:14
  • Exodus 24:4
  • Exodus 34:1, 27-28.
  • Exodus 39:30
  • Numbers 5:23
  • Deuteronomy 4:13 
  • Deuteronomy 5:22
  • Deuteronomy 6:9
  • Deuteronomy 10:2, 4
  • Deuteronomy 31:9, 19, 22


  • The 9th Psalms is an ancient acrostic, written by King David.--72.38.211.144 (talk) 00:00, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


  • F. Josephus Antiquities of the Jews - Book I. Chapter 3. 6.

"There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote."


  • Estimated 10th limestone inscriptation from Tel Zayit,.--72.38.211.144 (talk) 00:00, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tel Zayit abecedary inscription vs. the standard abecedary

Tel Zayit

  • ’aleph
  • behth
  • gi′mel
  • da′leth
  • waw
  • he'
  • chehth
  • za′yin
  • tehth
  • yohdh
  • la′medh
  • kaph
  • mem
  • nun
  • sa
  • pe′
  • ‛a′yin
  • tsadheh
  • qohph
  • rehsh
  • shin
  • taw

Standard

  • ’Al′eph
  • behth
  • gi′mel
  • da′leth
  • he’
  • waw
  • za’yin
  • chehth
  • tehth
  • yohdh
  • kaph
  • lamedh
  • mem
  • nun
  • sa′mekh
  • ‛a′yin
  • pe’
  • tsadheh
  • qohph
  • rehsh
  • shin
  • taw

[edit] The Samaritan alpabet

- ’Ā´lāph. ' /ʔ/

- Bîhth. /b/

- Gā´mān. /ɡ/

- Dā´lath. /d/

- Iē’. /ey/,

- Báā. /b/

- Zēn. /z/

- Īhth.

- Tihth. /tˁ/

- Yūhth. /y/

- Káph. /k/ - [x] allophonically

- Lā´bāth. /l/

- Mīīm. /m/

- Nūn. /n/

- Sîn´gath/Sîn´kath. /s/

- ‛A´yîn. /ʕ/

- Phī’. /f/

- Tsa•dhey´. /tzsˁ/ /tş/

- Qūhph. /qˁ/

- Rīhšh. /ɾ/ (Judean Rehsh "head")

- šhān. /š/ (sh)(Judean Shin)

- Táph./t/ (Judean Taw "mark") —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.38.211.144 (talk) 17:23, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proto-Mesolevantian

The term Proto-Mesolevantian is the origin of the Hebrew alpabet. Some leading experts believe that this term is netural to the people who established the origin of alphabet, it refers to a vast area Proto-Mesolevantian means Proto-Mesopotamian-and-levantian-and-Siniatic region. It refers to the oldest form of this system.--72.38.211.144 (talk) 05:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)