The world's oldest alphabet : Hebrew as the language of the Proto-consonantal script /

The world's oldest alphabet : Hebrew as the language of the Proto-consonantal script /

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Author / Creator:Petrovich, Douglas, author.
Imprint:Jerusalem : Carta, 2016.
©2016
Description:xvi, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Paleography, Hebrew.
Inscriptions, Proto-Sinaitic.
Inscriptions, Semitic.
Alphabet -- History.
Alphabet.
Inscriptions, Proto-Sinaitic.
Inscriptions, Semitic.
Paleography, Hebrew.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10953184
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Other authors / contributors:Doherty, Sarah K.
Merrill, Eugene H.
ISBN:9789652208842
9652208841
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:For about 150 years, scholars have attempted to identify the language of the world's first alphabetic script, and to translate some of the inscriptions that use it. Until now, their attempts have accomplished little more than identifying most of the pictographic letters and translating a few of the Semitic words. With the publication of The World's Oldest Alphabet, a new day has dawned. All of the disputed letters have been resolved, while the language has been identified conclusively as Hebrew, allowing for the translation of 16 inscriptions that date from 1842 to 1446 BC. It is the author's reading that these inscriptions expressly name three biblical figures (Asenath, Ahisamach, and Moses) and greatly illuminate the earliest Israelite history in a way that no other book has achieved, apart from the Bible.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Maps and Figures
  • 1. Background Matters to the Proto-Consonantal Inscriptions
  • The Place of the First Alphabet among the Earliest Writing Scripts
  • The Proper Semitic Language of the Proto-Consonantal Script
  • The Path that Led to Identifying Hebrew as the Proto-Consonantal Script
  • The Thesis and Structure of the Present Work on Early Alphabetic Inscriptions
  • The Conventions Used for the Study of the Following 16 Inscriptions
  • 2. The Inscriptions of the Period of Egypt's Middle Kingdom
  • The Caption on Sinai 115
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 377
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Wadi el-Hôl 1
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Wadi el-Hôl 2
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Lahun Bilingual Ostracon
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Ceramic Evaluation
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 376
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • 3. The Inscriptions of the Period of Egypt's New Kingdom
  • Turquoise Mines at Serâbit el-Khâdim
  • Sinai 345a and Sinai 345b
  • Background to the Inscriptions
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 346a and Sinai 346b
  • Background to the Inscriptions
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 349
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 351
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 353
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 357
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 360
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 361
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translate on and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 375a
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • Sinai 378
  • Background to the Inscription
  • Paleographic Decipherment
  • Translation and Orthography
  • Potential Historical Value
  • 4. Concluding Thoughts
  • The Historical Credibility of the Account of Israelites in Egypt
  • The Dating of the Corpus of Proto-Consonantal Hebrew Texts
  • General Findings of the Present Study
  • The Inventors of the Proto-Consonantal Hebrew Script
  • The Value of the Proto-Consonantal Hebrew Corpus to Biblical History
  • The Identification of the Golden Calf/Heifer in Exodus 32
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1. The Original 22 Letters of the PCH Alphabet
  • Appendix 2. The Additional (Non-Original) Five Proto-Alphabetic Letters
  • Appendix 3. Declining and Parsing Guide for ME and PCH Words
  • Appendix 4. Chronology of Relevant Ancient Egyptian Dynasties
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Index
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