Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.
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Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.
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For anyone interested in the development of the alphabet, this is a great read. The target audience of the book is for the general reader, but there is enough here to make it a worthy read for the scholar. I have a master's degree in Hebrew and related Semitic languages, and I found LOTS of new information here.
