Tory: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Tory Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Will: > > A Moses figure (real or not) would have been literate in Egyptian. We can > at least put that question to rest. The question is what script and > language would he use? What script would Asiatics from Egypt and always on > the move use? I'm thinking a cursive script for fast transmission and > recording of information on just about any medium available, i.e. stone, > rocks, leather, limestone, ostraca, parchment, or whatever. > Hebrew alphabetic script existed at that time, readily and easily learnable, making it entirely unnecessary for a Hebrew to use Egyptian or hieratic once they left Egypt, ever. > > You wrote: "So if Moses wrote in it, it would have been in Egyptian, which > would be unintellible to non-Egyptian speaking Hebrews." > > They presumably were all capable of understanding and speaking Egyptian by > the time of the Exodus even if only relatively few were literate. I do not > see it as improbable the idea that hieratic was used to write some Hebrew > words. > Hebrew was written phonetically, therefore no need for any hieratic in a Hebrew document. > The Arabic script seems to have some connections to hieratic. What I am > saying is that a narrative composition in the 15th century BC, in the > region of Egypt/Canaan is more likely to be in hieratic than anything else > since the examples that survive are just that. > ?? > Even 1,000+ kilometers in Assyria and Babylonia, their narration, story > telling, and even their year-names and annual limmu name recording were > probably all written first on perishable mediums in a cursive script prior > to being copied on non-perishable medium of clay tablets with a stylus. > > Tory Thorpe > Tel Aviv, Israel > > Karl W. Randolph.
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