Controversial
claim argues that ancient Israelites turned Egyptian hieroglyphics into letters.
The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian
sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes. Israelites
living in Egypt transformed that civilization’s hieroglyphics into Hebrew 1.0
more than 3,800 years ago, at a time when the Old Testament describes Jews
living in Egypt, says archaeologist and epigrapher Douglas Petrovich of Wilfrid
Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Hebrew speakers seeking a way to
communicate in writing with other Egyptian Jews simplified the pharaohs’
complex hieroglyphic writing system into 22 alphabetic letters, Petrovich
proposed. See pictures and read article at -- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-alphabet-identified-hebrew?tgt=nr
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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