Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet

Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet
Ancient Semitic Hebrew
Moabite Ammonite
Aramaic Hebrew/Aramaic
Samaritan Greek
DSS Hebrew Modern Hebrew
Since the Egyptian, Sumerian, Greek, Aramaic, Arabic,
Hebrew and other Shemitic cultures have their origins in
the Ancient Hebrew script, tracing their history and
evolution is beneficial to reconstructing the original
Ancient Hebrew script. Appendix "C" includes a set of
two charts for each of the 22 Hebrew letters. One chart
includes all the known scripts of 14 languages. The other
is a flowchart showing the evolution of the letter through
the centuries
Why study the Ancient Hebrew language and culture?
The Hebrew people, whose culture and lifestyle were very
different than our own, wrote the Bible between 1,500
and 500 BCE.
When we read the Bible as a 21st Century American, our
culture and lifestyle often influence our interpretation of
the words and phrases of the Bible. A word such as "rain"
has the meaning; "the coming down of water from the
clouds in the sky", but the interpretation of the word rain
will be influenced by the context of the culture. This is
true even in our own culture where the word "rain" can be
interpreted differently. If the local weather station
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