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100	1		_aNaveh Joseph
245	1	0	_aEarly history of the alphabet: _ban introduction to West Semitic epigraphy and palaeography. / _cJ. Naveh
250			_aReprinted
260			_aJerusalem: _bMagnes Press, _c1997.
300			_aIX+222 p.; _bill., 24 plates; _c23 cm
500			_a[Inscriptions and manuscripts. Epigraphy and palaeography. The development of scripts and script styles. Semitic languages and scripts. The rise of the Semitic script Background - Sumerian cuneiform writing. Egyptian hieroglyphic scripts. The Hittite "hieroglyphic" scripts. The Cretan scripts. Undeciphered scripts in Syria-Palestine. The beginnings of the Alphabet. The South Semitic scripts. The West Semitic Scripts - The Phoenician script. The Hebrew script. The Aramaic script. Comparative aspects of the Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic scripts. The scripts of Israel's neighbours. The change from Hebrew to Jewish script. The development of Later Aramaic offshoots Aramaic writing in the Iranian world. The Aramaic scripts in the East - The South Mesopotamian branch. The North Mesopotamian branch. The Palmyrene-Syriac branch. The Nabatean script and the rise of Arabic script. The Jewish script. The antiquity of the Greek Alphabet]
504			_aAbbrev. - p.: 187; Ill. - p.: 189-202; Index - p.: 203-211.
650		0	_aAlphabet _xHistory
650		0	_aSemitic languages _xAlphabet _xScripts
650		0	_aSemitic inscriptions
650		0	_aPaleography _xSemitic languages
942			_2udc _cBK