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lilbluehair t1_j3t5n13 wrote

Reply to comment by blackest_francis in Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls and biblical archaeology by MeatballDom

Semitic when referring to languages includes Arabic, so not sure what your point is

I was very curious about this but everything I've found says that graffiti is proto- Arabic, not Hebrew

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blackest_francis t1_j3tkrz3 wrote

Really? Nothing about the prolific Proto-Sinaitic carvings in the turquoise mines at Serâbit El-Khâdim? I mean, it's not hard to find, unless you're just not looking for it.

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njslc t1_j3twcrd wrote

I don't think this is the evidence to biblical history that you think it is. Don't get me wrong, Proto-Sinaitic script has been extremely fascinating to read about, but it's importance isn't that it's the precursor to Hebrew; it's that it is a common ancestor for a lot of the European, East Asian, North African alphabets and connects them directly to Egyptian.

Basically Proto-Sinaitic when it comes to writing is an even broader term than Semitic is when it comes to language.

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blackest_francis t1_j3u1fam wrote

I have zero interest in biblical history, but you simply can't say that the people who became Hebrews were not slaves in Egypt. Not sure what your agenda is here.

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