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Goldwasser's First Rebuttal (to Anson Rainey, "Who Really Invented the Alphabet?")
Orly Goldwasser, 2010.
What it's used for here
Bible History Daily, 25 August 2010. Records Rainey's objection (a literate inventor who knew hieratic, cursive texts on lost papyri) and Goldwasser's answer (no cursive alphabetic text exists; sign choices reflect desert life; the motive was religious, not administrative).
Our copy
Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Orly Goldwasser (2010). Goldwasser's First Rebuttal (to Anson Rainey, "Who Really Invented the Alphabet?"). https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/inscriptions/goldwassers-first-rebuttal/
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. “Goldwasser's First Rebuttal (to Anson Rainey, "Who Really Invented the Alphabet?").” 2010.