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==The Hebrew Script==

==The Hebrew Script==

The present day Hebrew printed letters of the Hebrew Bible and modern literature are not Hebrew, but are Aramaic script. The original Hebrew script was much like its close relatives in the middle east - Caananite, Phoenician, and Moabite, and like them Hebrew is fully alphabetic. This means that a sign, though perhaps having originated as a picture (pictograph) or mental concept or action, represents one sound. This was a great advance in literacy as just a few letters had to be learnt to produce the limited particular sound issuing from the mouth, rather than myriads of signs having to be learnt to represent the myriads of ideas, actions, and concepts. Greek and Latin developed their alphabetic scripts from the semitic.  

The present day Hebrew printed letters of the Hebrew Bible and modern literature are not Hebrew, but are Aramaic script. The original Hebrew script was much like its close relatives in the middle east - Caananite, Phoenician, and Moabite, and like them Hebrew is fully alphabetic. This means that a sign, though perhaps having originated as a picture (pictograph) or mental concept or action, represents one sound. This was a great advance in literacy as just a few letters had to be learned to produce the limited particular sound issuing from the mouth, rather than myriads of signs having to be learned to represent the myriads of ideas, actions, and concepts. Greek and Latin developed their alphabetic scripts from the semitic.

== Hebrew in the Bible==

== Hebrew in the Bible==