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The Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, including pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew, from southern Canaan, also known as the biblical kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah.
The history of the Hebrew alphabet is not to be confused with the history of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, so called not because it is ancestral to the Hebrew alphabet but because it was used to write the earliest form of the Hebrew language. "Paleo-Hebrew alphabet" is the modern term (coined by Solomon Birnbaum in 1954 [1]) used for the script ...
A Hebrew variant of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, called the paleo-Hebrew alphabet by scholars, began to emerge around 800 BCE. [13] An example is the Siloam inscription (c. 700 BCE). [14] The paleo-Hebrew alphabet was used in the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
The chart shows the graphical evolution of Phoenician letter forms into other alphabets. ... The Samaritan alphabet is a development of Paleo-Hebrew, ...
Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 Pronunciation: K-naw-un Caiaphas, Joseph ben: Person 14 BC: AD 46: Hebrew: יהוסף בר קַיָפָא Pronunciation: Yeh-hoo-siff bar Kie-yuh-fuh David (Son of Jesse & Nitzevet bat Adael) Person 1035 BC: 970 BC: Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤃𐤅𐤃 Pronunciation: Dauad Meaning: Beloved One David, House of (the linage of ...
English: The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (abjad) is based on the JPG project by Yclorfene, which is available here: File:Paleo-hebrew_alphabet.jpg. The original design is a constructivist idealization of the Paleo-Hebrew abjad. I used this project to design the Paleo-Hebrew abjad using Inkscape 0.92.
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Proto-Canaanite, also referred to as Proto-Canaan, Old Canaanite, or Canaanite, [5] is the name given to either a script ancestral to the Phoenician or Paleo-Hebrew script with undefined affinity to Proto-Sinaitic, [7] or to the Proto-Sinaitic script (c. 16th century BC), when found in Canaan. [8] [9] [10] [11]