# Seth L. Sanders 2023: Who Really Invented the Alphabet?

> Seth L. Sanders, 2023. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The Ancient Near East Today 11(8), ASOR, August 2023. Summarises the…

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# Who Really Invented the Alphabet?

Seth L. Sanders, 2023.

**Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** Article-magazine0

## What it's used for here

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.

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[The script ignores Egyptian sound values and the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs, and uses several look-alike…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEEARRD3VH3/the-script-ignores-egyptian-sound-values-and-the-egyptian)

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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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Seth L. Sanders (2023). Who Really Invented the Alphabet?. https://anetoday.org/sanders-invented-alphabet/
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