Indeed! Even latter day Hebrew script, as we have it just now before
us, is cuneiform.
This is why the novice reader so easily confuses the letters ד D and
ר R, consisting both
of only two similarly oriented wedges. Also the letters ה H and the
ח X consisting
both of only three similarly oriented wedges (with only a tiny gap to
distinguish between them).
This also, some say, is the reason why אחד EXAD ("our God is one")
is written with an
enlarged ד D: to clearly distinguish it from ר R, and אחר AXER,
'another'.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Apr 9, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
the narrative was written in "cuneiform", i.e., Canaanite/Hebrew
written
in cuneiform script, not Akkadian written in cuneiform
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