In the 10th century B.C., in the hill country south of Jerusalem, a scribe carved his ABCs on a limestone boulder _ actually, his aleph-beth-gimels, for the string of letters appears to be an early ...

The textbook for the intensive Hebrew class that I enrolled in this past summer was called “Hebrew from Scratch”. Which didn’t technically apply to my situation, at age 48, in the Beginner Aleph ...

Information reaching me shows that the press in Germany did not carry the recent scientific conclusions, that the alphabet is of Jewish, rather than of Phoenician origin. It is conjectural what their ...