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Set In Stone

Donal Graeme
November 23, 2016

I came across this this story recently, and thought that some of my readers might find it fascinating:

The worldâs earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes.

Israelites living in Egypt transformed that civilizationâs hieroglyphics into Hebrew 1.0 more than 3,800 years ago, at a time when the Old Testament describes Jews living in Egypt, 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 pharaohsâ complex hieroglyphic writing system into 22 alphabetic letters, Petrovich proposed on November 17 at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

âThere is a connection between ancient Egyptian texts and preserved alphabets,â Petrovich said.

Thatâs a highly controversial contention among scholars of the Bible and ancient civilizations. Many argue, despite whatâs recounted in the Old Testament, that Israelites did not live in Egypt as long ago as proposed by Petrovich. Biblical dates for the Israelitesâ stay in Egypt are unreliable, they say.

You can read the rest at the link.

Something like this could certainly be a publicity stunt. The fact that the archeologist making the claim is writing a book would give that notion some support. At the same time, however, I am also highly suspicious of most modern scholars. I  don’t imagine I am alone in thinking that many of them would go to great lengths to come to a conclusion that just coincidentally argued against biblical timelines.

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Title Set In Stone
Author Donal Graeme
Date November 23, 2016 3:00 AM UTC (7 years ago)
Blog Donal Graeme
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