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The Probable Inventors of the First Alphabet: Semites Functioning as rather High Status Personnel in a Component of the Egyptian Apparatus
Christopher A. Rollston, 2010.
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Rollston Epigraphy (also carried on the ASOR blog), 2010. The counter-position to Goldwasser: writing in the Bronze Age was an elite skill, so the inventors were Semites who knew Egyptian writing and worked within the Egyptian administration; answered by Goldwasser 2012.
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Christopher A. Rollston (2010). The Probable Inventors of the First Alphabet: Semites Functioning as rather High Status Personnel in a Component of the Egyptian Apparatus. http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=195
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