Topics Ancient Hebrew Alphabet

This video series will examine the history and evolution of the Ancient Semitic/Hebrew alphabet from its early pictographic origins to its modern forms as well as its adoption into the Greek and Latin alphabets. We will also investigate how these ancient pictographic letters were combined to form words, whose letters provide definition to the word itself.

The Ancient Hebrew Alphabet (Articles) Reconstructing the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet from archeological and linguistic sources.

The Transition from Paleo-Hebrew to Aramaic (Article) During the Babylonian captivity the Jews began using the Aramaic script in favor of the Old Hebrew or Paleo-Hebrew script.

Sabbath in Ancient Hebrew (Video) Each letter in the Hebrew alphabet was originally a picture with meaning. In this video we will examine the letters in the Hebrew word shabbat.