njslc t1_j3twcrd wrote on January 11, 2023 at 1:03 AM

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

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.

blackest_francis t1_j3u1fam wrote on January 11, 2023 at 1:39 AM

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.