# Benjamin Sass 1988: The Genesis of the Alphabet and Its Development in the Second Millennium B.C.

> Benjamin Sass, 1988. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Ägypten und Altes Testament 13, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. The standard corpus catalogue of…

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# The Genesis of the Alphabet and Its Development in the Second Millennium B.C.

Benjamin Sass, 1988.

**Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** Book0

## What it's used for here

Ägypten und Altes Testament 13, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. The standard corpus catalogue of the Proto-Sinaitic and Proto-Canaanite inscriptions with a sign-by-sign palaeography; argued for a Middle Kingdom date, a position Sass himself later abandoned.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Benjamin Sass publishes the corpus catalogue and argues for a Middle Kingdom date, a position he reverses in 2004-2005](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/events/EVT0DEDS096VSMQ/benjamin-sass-publishes-the-corpus-catalogue-and-argues-for)

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[Benjamin Sass](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/people/FIG0DEDQAF6A3S3/benjamin-sass)

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[Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic)

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Benjamin Sass (1988). The Genesis of the Alphabet and Its Development in the Second Millennium B.C.. https://search.worldcat.org/title/926956917
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