Is a long-dismissed forgery the oldest known Biblical manuscript?

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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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