Oldest alphabet identified as Hebrew

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Inscriptions in stone slabs from Egypt, including this specimen dating to almost 3,500 years ago, contain the world’s oldest alphabet, which one researcher now argues was an early form of Hebrew. New translations of these inscriptions contain references to figures from the Bible, including Moses.
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Israelites living in Egypt transformed that civilization’s hieroglyphics into Hebrew 1.0 more than 3,800 years ago, at a time when the Old Testament describes Jews living in Egypt, says archaeologist and epigrapher Douglas Petrovich of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. Hebrew speakers seeking a way to communicate in writing with other Egyptian Jews simplified the pharaohs’ complex hieroglyphic writing system into 22 alphabetic letters, Petrovich proposed on November 17 at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-alphabet-identified-hebrew
 
Guess this could turn the theory around that Hebrew developed from Phoenician, perhaps the other way around.

Some think that the Phoenician alphabet is derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs[4] and became one of the most widely used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it evolved and was assimilated by many other cultures. The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet was directly derived from Phoenician.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
 
errr ...
Petrovich’s Hebrew identification for the ancient inscriptions is starved for evidence, said biblical scholar and Semitic language specialist Christopher Rollston of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. There is no way to tell which of many Semitic languages are represented by the early alphabetic system, Rollston contended.
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So not necessarily Hebrew then it seems.
 
Bullshyte.

Oldest alphabet is Sanskrit.
 
The Trutherizer said:
I don't get it... The hieroglyphs are almost identical to the middle-Egyptian ones. How is this suddenly early Hebrew?
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Well, what if I told you that this Java source code...

Code: 
class Oh
{
    public int Bugger()
    {
        int x = 3;
        return x;
    }
}

...is actually C#
 
Until the anc and eff agree and don't claim being first I cannot accept this.
 
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