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A shiviti from Denmark, with Hebrew text in the shape of a menorah.. Micrography (from Greek, literally small-writing – "Μικρογραφία"), also called microcalligraphy, is a Jewish form of calligrams developed in the 9th century, with parallels in Christianity and Islam, [1] utilizing minute Hebrew letters to form representational, geometric and abstract designs.
The Rashi script or Sephardic script (Hebrew: כְּתַב רַשִׁ״י, romanized: Ktav Rashi) is a typeface for the Hebrew alphabet based on 15th-century Sephardic semi-cursive handwriting. It is named for the rabbinic commentator Rashi , whose works are customarily printed in the typeface (though Rashi himself died several hundred years ...
Faux Hebrew is a Latin script typeface that mimics the calligraphic curves and large serif of Hebrew characters. [1] The style is used for decorative purposes, such as in artwork, foreign branding advertisements , and antisemitic propaganda, often to evoke themes of Jewishness or represent Israel .
According to The Jewish Daily Forward, its use as an amulet originates in 18th century Eastern Europe. [1] Chai as a symbol goes back to medieval Spain.Letters as symbols in Jewish culture go back to the earliest Jewish roots, the Talmud states that the world was created from Hebrew letters which form verses of the Torah.
Thuluth (Arabic: ثُلُث, Ṯuluṯ or Arabic: خَطُّ الثُّلُثِ, Ḵaṭṭ-uṯ-Ṯuluṯ; Persian: ثلث, Sols; Turkish: Sülüs, from thuluth "one-third") is an Arabic script variety of Islamic calligraphy. The straight angular forms of Kufic were replaced in the new script by curved and oblique lines.
Hathaway told Barrymore, 48, that the tattoo of the letter “M” on her left wrist holds a special meaning that she and her husband, Adam Shulman, share together. “We have this thing, it’s ...
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.