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Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet

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<strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Hebrew</strong> <strong>Language</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Alphabet</strong><br />

Introduction<br />

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This book is unique in that it will look at the Biblical<br />

<strong>Hebrew</strong> language of the Bible through the eyes of the<br />

<strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Hebrew</strong>s who wrote it. Modern readers often<br />

ignore the fact that the Bible is an <strong>Ancient</strong> text <strong>and</strong> must<br />

be read as an <strong>Ancient</strong> text. The definitions of <strong>Hebrew</strong><br />

words, just like any other language, change <strong>and</strong> evolve<br />

over time. It is the goal of this work to bring out the<br />

<strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Hebrew</strong> meanings of words to the student of the<br />

Bible as never before done.<br />

The study of the <strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Hebrew</strong> language <strong>and</strong> alphabet<br />

begins with an underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the <strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Hebrew</strong><br />

culture as both are intimately related. The original letters<br />

of the <strong>Hebrew</strong> alphabet was actually pictures, or<br />

pictographs, similar to Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Each<br />

picture represented an object whose definition is closely<br />

related to the agricultural lifestyle of the <strong>Ancient</strong><br />

<strong>Hebrew</strong>s. By studying the culture <strong>and</strong> lifestyle of the<br />

<strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Hebrew</strong>s we can better underst<strong>and</strong> their language.<br />

In a work such as this, there will undoubtedly be some<br />

misinterpretation of the <strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Hebrew</strong> culture <strong>and</strong><br />

pictographs. The study of any <strong>Ancient</strong> culture is like<br />

putting together a puzzle. We will never have all the<br />

pieces to the puzzle, but the pieces we do have, we piece<br />

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