The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient ...

Hebrew as the world’s oldest alphabet: Palaeography and translation of the proto-consonantal inscriptions of Egypt’s Middle Kingdom (Sinai 115, Wadi el-Hol 1 and 2, and the Lahun Bilingual ...

Julie Rosenfeld in Columbia describes herself as a “Jewish lesbian violinist baker.” She and her wife have been together for ...

The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs found at a number of Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, according to a new analysis.

A boy learns the Hebrew alphabet as a member of a Black Jewish congregation in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, circa 1955. Photograph by Archive Photos, Getty Images.

Here, she renders the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, hey, using sumi ink, traditional in Japanese calligraphy and made from the soot of burnt oils. In focusing on a single letter, Wapner echoes ...

Another member of the team, P Kyle McCarter said it was a "Phoenician type of alphabet that is being adapted" - and as such a transitional abecedary. If the inscription is confirmed as a sample of ...

On ivory an alphabet. was used to write, upon a comb, by Canaanites, a tête-à-tête, composing words found in no tome. that’s published yet, a prohibition. of lice, the third plague God inflicted.

The Academy of the Hebrew Language announced that a mirror image of the letter Tzadi would be added to the alphabet to spell out a 'Ch.' It quickly clarified that the announcement was an April ...