History of the Hebrew alphabet

Aleppo Codex: 10th century Hebrew Bible with Masoretic pointing
A page from a 16th-century YiddishHebrewLatinGerman dictionary by Elijah Levita

The Hebrew alphabet is a script that was derived from the Aramaic alphabet during the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods (c. 500 BCE – 50 CE). It replaced the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet which was used in the earliest epigraphic records of the Hebrew language.


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