News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Is a long-dismissed forgery the oldest known Biblical manuscript?. Parent comment

Re:Is a long-dismissed forgery the oldest known Biblical man... by dogma1138 on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:38PM (#26450230)
That’s not Hebrew technically either it uses the Phoenician alphabet or a variation of it.

I can read the Dead Sea scrolls I can’t read what ever this is :(

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Is a long-dismissed forgery the oldest known Biblical man... by marshmallow_12 on Saturday March 13, 2021 @06:08PM (#26451026)
it is Hebrew, just in a now defunct script. I didn't see anything majorly informative in the transcription, in case you were wondering.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Is a long-dismissed forgery the oldest known Biblical man... by dogma1138 on Saturday March 13, 2021 @07:16PM (#26451498)
Well it’s not Hebrew, the Hebrew alphabet is based on Aramaic in fact it’s essentially identical to “square” aka western Aramaic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic

Before that proto/paleo-Hebrew used the same Canaanite scripts that were common in the region, the closest thing we have to that today is Samaritan.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Is a long-dismissed forgery the oldest known Biblical man... by Perenti on Saturday March 13, 2021 @10:31PM (#26452554)
Pre-captivity Hebrew used the Phoenician alphabet, post exile the Chaldean (square) one.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Is a long-dismissed forgery the oldest known Biblical man... by cwzwarich on Saturday March 13, 2021 @07:36PM (#26451604)
Even in rabbinic Hebrew, the name for this script is כתב עברי (Hebrew writing), and the name for the script used today is כתב אשורית (Assyrian writing).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Is a long-dismissed forgery the oldest known Biblical man... by marshmallow_12 on Sunday March 14, 2021 @05:32AM (#26453894)
i meant that Hebrew has several scripts.
[ Parent | on HN ]