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The Bible and Interpretation, November 2019. A review of the evidence (about 47 Serabit texts, 2 at Wadi el-Hol) and of the dating positions, with replies to Holmstedt's Byblos theory, Petrovich's Hebrew reading and LeBlanc; proposes Avaris as the place of invention.
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Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet
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Aren M. Wilson-Wright (2019). On the Origin of Alphabetic Writing. https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/sites/bibleinterp.arizona.edu/files/images/On%20the%20Origin%20of%20Alphabetic%20Writing.pdf
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