Hello Isaac: Do you think that this serabit el-khadim inscription represents the predecessor to the current hebrew alphabet?
And in particular, the letter "L" or lamed? Does it signify a staff or branch? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_alphabet regards, fred burlingame On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote: > It is certainly a good distance from the primitive Hebrew root L to EL > ELION. AL and LO are, methinks, in the sense of 'off'. > > Isaac Fried, Boston University > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
