The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient ...

Yakira is the founder of Hebrew Guru and Mensch World Books and the author of How to Be a Jew Today and the LEARN TO READ HEBREW IN 18 STEPS book series. She is also a co-owner of Torah Rental LA.

A new description of Hebrew as the world’s oldest alphabet includes these proposed early Hebrew letters (middle), with corresponding modern Hebrew letters (left) and Egyptian hieroglyphic ...

Hebrew has 22 letters and five vowels. To that Shomer’s aleph bet adds 11 consonants and one vowel. The new letters may look quizzical to some, ...

One person who saw such connections is Yehudit Goldfarb. She started teaching Tai Chi in Berkeley, California, in 1987, and was introduced to “the dance of the letters” in Modi’in in 1979.

The text relates how King Mesha of Moab (in modern Jordan) defeated the Kingdom of Israel. Some scholars believe that a word on the stone slab with several Hebrew letters missing may be a reference to ...

These Hebrew wood type letters spell the word "wood." The letters are part of a rare collection of 30 different Hebrew wood type alphabets housed at the Cary Graphics Arts Collection.

One of the four fragments had four lines of text, with a total of 15 to 16 completely or partially preserved letters. One word, "Shabbat," the Hebrew word for "Sabbath," is clearly visible, and ...

In December 2023, archaeologists skeptical of the find published three articles arguing that the so-called curse tablet may actually be a fishing weight, and what looked like Hebrew letters on it ...

The language of co-existence: a new typeface combining Hebrew and Arabic 'Everyone can read the word in their own way but will not ignore the other language' Heba Zoabi. 6 min read.