# Orly Goldwasser 2010: Goldwasser's First Rebuttal (to Anson Rainey, "Who Really Invented the Alphabet?")

> Orly Goldwasser, 2010. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Bible History Daily, 25 August 2010. Records Rainey's objection (a literate inventor…

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# Goldwasser's First Rebuttal (to Anson Rainey, "Who Really Invented the Alphabet?")

Orly Goldwasser, 2010.

**Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** Webpage0

## 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).

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[No cursive, papyrus or administrative alphabetic text of the Middle Kingdom or early New Kingdom has been found; the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEEAVGEC6RA/no-cursive-papyrus-or-administrative-alphabetic-text-of-the)

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

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## Cite it

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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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