Category: Ancient Languages
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Jewish and Other Semitic Terms Written in Egyptian Characters
An Egyptian script was possibly used to write Hebrew text on the Nephite record. Documents from the correct location and time period have texts and languages in varying scripts that lend credence to this scribal phenomenon. Read more
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The Hieratic Scribal Tradition of Pre-Exilic Judah
Discusses three Hebrew ostraca bearing Egyptian hieratic symbols. At least one the discussed ostraca dates to the 7th century BC, the time Lehi left Jerusalem and the time which Nephi began keeping the record in what Mormon later called “reformed Egyptian” and what Nephi himself called “the learning of the Jews and the language of Read more
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Hieratic Fragments from Tell el-Far’ah (South)
Two ostraca found at Tell el-Far’ah, an archeological site between Jerusalem and Nazareth, contain together seven lines of Egyptian Hieratic, while these pottery sherds could not be dated conventionally, the language suggest 19th or 20th dynasty, “with quite a clear stress on the 20th dynasty” which lasted from 1189 to 1077 BC. This is evidence Read more