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 the the Egyptians.
The Hieratic Scribal Tradition of Pre-Exilic Judah
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