Scriptural Names » alphabets http://scripturalnames.com names and titles in the original biblical languages Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:04:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ancient Near Eastern Alphabets http://scripturalnames.com/2008/04/02/ancient-near-eastern-alphabets/ http://scripturalnames.com/2008/04/02/ancient-near-eastern-alphabets/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:52:11 +0000 Tim Carriker http://scripturalnames.com/2008/04/02/ancient-near-eastern-alphabets/ There are various ways to write Aramaic, just as other languages often have more than one script. The Aramaic language of the ancient Assyrians derives from the Phoenician, whose alphabet was as follows:

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Ancient Aramaic was written like this:

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Compare that with the script of other ancient languages:

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Biblical scholars today generally use the Hebrew alphabet and characters as the same alphabet to write in Aramaic.

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