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01.16.06 (2:54 pm) [edit]

Excerpt from "The Story of the Aleph Beth," by David Diringer: "Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie argued that the Greek and the Phoenician alphabets, and other early alphabetic and non-alphabetic scripts developed from the geometric prehistoric marks employed throughout the Mediterranean region from the earliest times. According to him, the first system of classification originated in N. Syria; "daughter" systes were developed by adding some signs and omitting others. Dr. T. H. Gaster at one time revised this prehistory-geometric-sign s theory.
Since 1916, the Palaeo-Sinaitic theory has been much in favor: this theory was advanced particularly by Dr. (now Sir) Alan Gardiner. It is based on inscriptions discovered by W. M. Flinders Petrie in the Sinaitic Peninsula in 1905. Dr. Gardiner and Prof. Kurt Sethe, dealing with these inscriptions came to the conclusion that they represent a stage of writing intermediate between Egpytion hieroglyphics and the N. Semitic alphabet. The date of these inscriptions is disputed, some scholars attributing them to the early eighteenth century B.C.E. ... We may date the origin of the alphabet about 1800-1700 B.C.E, that is at about the beginning of the Hyksos period. The political situation of the Old World at the period favored the creation of a revolutionary, democratic writing, in contradistinction to the conservative, theocratic scripts of the old states of Mesopotamia and Egypt. The nationality of the inventors is unknown, but it is now generally agree that they belonged to the N-W Semitic linguistic group. Palestine and Syria, the geographical center of the greater Egpyto-Mesopotamian civilization, offered conditions favorable to the invention and elaboration of alphabetic writing. Cuneiform, Egyptian and Minoan scripts, as well as prehistoric geometric symbols were known and used here, and were drawn upon for the new invention. Moreover, the language spoken in this region was particularly favoravble to the creation of a consonantal alphabet. ... Was the alphabet a Hebrew Invention? It has been mentio ned that the Early Canaanite inscirptions some going back to the period of the Patriarchs, may represent the original proto-type of the Alhpabet. And, if there is substance in our theory that the twenty-two symbols of the original Alhpabet were not pictographic but artificial and geometrical, and that the names were an artificial mnemotechnic device, one is promted to ask what seems a rather startling question: Did the Second Commandment play any part in the invention of the Alphabet? Or could it have been a pure coincidence that the N-Semitic alphabetic symbols were artificial and not representational, as nearly all the origonal non-alphabetic scripts were representational? In other words, is it possible that the ancient Hebrews who presented the world with the Bible and Monotheism, also gave it the Alhpabet? ... In Tur-Sinai's opinion, 'The historic alphabet of twenty-two signs, as first developed and adapted to Hebrew and Aramaic, was created in Israel, for the purposes of Israel's religious law, and forms part of Israel's religious tradition. Thus the alphabet as it was taught by priests in words and sentences from its very beginning, is a religious document prclaiming the belief in one God.' In other words, the Canaanitic alphabet, tbeginning and foundation of all learning, is a creation of Israel's genius and a witness to the ancient origin of its Torah.' Tur-Sinai bases his attractive theory on certain Talmudic and early Christian explanations of the Hebrew letter-names. He argues that there was a Hebrew age-old tradition of teaching the alphabet-letters as a 'didactic verse full of meaning and significance, and a sublime literary, artistic and educational document.' The substance of 'that sublime didactic verse' was an injunction: to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to cleave unto Him or Be like Him; even as He is compassionate and merciful, be you compassionate and merciful too.' Very attractive, very beautiful, but there is hardly any evidence to support the theory. Main features of the alphabet: The great achievement in the creation of the Alphabet was not the invention of signs - ample evidence can be adduced for the invention 'of alphabets by schoolchildren who already know their ABC - but the inner working principle. Thsi in its simplicity was the production of a system in which each sound was represented by one sign. The inventior of this system must indeed, have been a very fine phonetician. For this achievement, simple as it now seems to us, the inventor is to be ranked among the greatest benefactors of mankind. No other people in the world have been able to develop a true alphabetic system. 'It was one, and only one, of the gifts of the Semites to mankind (G. R. Driver). It was this alphabet which became the ancestor of all alhpabetic scripts the world has known. Each civilization developed its own variation on the basic script and the passing of time has made the inter-relation of some members of the same family quite unrecognizeable. Thus, the Brahmi script, the great mother-script of India, the Korean alphabet, the Mongolian scirpts are derived from the same source as the Greek, the Latin, the Runic, the Hebrew, the Arabic, and the Russian alphabets, although it is practically implossible for a layman to see a real resemblance between them.'

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