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The Ancient Near East Today 11(8), ASOR, August 2023. Summarises the elite-versus-margins debate (Rainey, Rollston, Goldwasser) and argues from the visual, non-phonetic borrowing of signs and the irregular directions that the alphabet arose outside scribal training.
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Seth L. Sanders (2023). Who Really Invented the Alphabet?. https://anetoday.org/sanders-invented-alphabet/
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. “Who Really Invented the Alphabet?.” 2023.