Use of the term "Paleo-Hebrew alphabet" is due to a 1954 suggestion by Solomon Birnbaum, who argued that "[t]o apply the term Phoenician to the script of the Hebrews is hardly suitable".
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11 Facts About Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
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The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet script is an abjad of 22 consonantal letters, exactly as the other Canaanite scripts from the period.
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The "Jewish square-script" variant now known simply as the Hebrew Paleo-Hebrew alphabet evolved directly out of the Aramaic script by about the 3rd century BCE .
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Paleo-Hebrew alphabet was in common use in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah throughout the 8th and 7th centuries BCE.
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Paleo-Hebrew script evolved by developing numerous cursive features, the lapidary features of the Phoenician alphabet being ever less pronounced with the passage of time.
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Paleo-Hebrew alphabet script was retained for some time as an archaizing or conservative mode of writing.
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The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet fell completely out of use among Jews only after 135 CE.
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Paleo-Hebrew alphabet continued to be used by the Samaritans and over time developed into the Samaritan alphabet.
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Some stated that Paleo-Hebrew alphabet was the original script used by the Israelites at the time of the Exodus, while others believed that Paleo-Hebrew alphabet merely served as a stopgap in a time when the ostensibly original script the was lost.
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Paleo-Hebrew alphabet's stance is rooted in a scriptural verse, which makes reference to the shape of the letter vav.
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Phoenician or Paleo-Hebrew alphabet characters were never standardised and are found in numerous variant shapes.
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