chavoux, jim, to the best of my knowledge, the proto-sianic alphabet was invented at about 2000 bc. all the evidence indicates that it was used mainly on animal skins. animal skins are not as durable as clay tablets.
akkadian, yes, was used in the region, but only in political-economical documents between leaders. not, as far as i know, for any religeous purposes. now, if we assume that the hebrews did keep a written version of their history and faith, which (so far) is just a supposition, i'd rather suppose that it was written in proto-sinaic on animal skins than that it was written in akkadian. for many reasons, starting with the fact that nobody spoke akkadian in the region except one or two scribes. and then again, it is just a supposition. why dont we leave it until jim's tablets will be found by the archeologists? otherwise, what is there to discuss positively? nir cohen On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:00:07 -0400, b-hebrew-request wrote > Send b-hebrew mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of b-hebrew digest..." -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
