SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes. Israelites living in Egypt ...

The language of the world's first alphabet could have been Hebrew. This is according to an ... from 1842 BC. 'What drew me to Sinai 115 in the first place is that I followed an archaeological ...

Instead, she started drawing around Hebrew letters, using brightly colored markers to hug the contours of the aleph bet, the Hebrew alphabet ... “That for me is definitely the most rewarding ...

Some scholars believe that a word on the stone slab with several Hebrew letters missing may be a reference to the Bible's King David. "I wanted to take readers back to the ancient beginnings of the ...

Dive deep into the mystical fabric of the universe with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. These ancient symbols offer more than mere linguistic value—they are windows to profound spiritual ...

“It was this single proto-consonantal Hebrew letter that helped me to understand that the world’s oldest alphabet – the language of which has been unidentified for over 150 years of ...

A shop on New York City’s Lower East Side in 1940 is covered with signs written in Yiddish, which primarily uses the Hebrew alphabet. Photograph by Charles Phelps Cushing, ClassicStock/Getty ...

Discover which Hebrew words we use in English and other facts about the language. Also available in Hebrew with audio.

Alan Cheuse reviews Ladies and Gentlemen, The Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet, two novellas by translator and scholar Curt Leviant, published by the University of Wisconsin press.

The Hebrew alphabet lost five characters by a decree of the Ukrainian Commissariat of Education, acting upon request of the Jewish section of the Communist party.