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Hebrew alphabet

The alphabet used for Hebrew: the Early Hebrew script before the 6th century BCE, and the later square script.

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Early Hebrew writing belongs to the same family as the Phoenician alphabet.

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Phoenician alphabet Scholarship & press 1
A related script rather than a direct line: Britannica says the Early Hebrew writing varies little from the earliest North Semitic alphabets and is closer in letter form to Phoenician than to modern Hebrew.

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Hebrew alphabet, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Scholarship & press
the oldest example of Early Hebrew writing, the Gezer Calendar, dates from the 10th century bce, and the writing used varies little from the earliest North Semitic alphabets.

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