# Douglas Petrovich 2016: The World's Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto-Consonantal Script

> Douglas Petrovich, 2016. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Jerusalem: Carta. Reads the Sinai and Egyptian inscriptions as Hebrew with biblical…

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# The World's Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto-Consonantal Script

Douglas Petrovich, 2016.

**Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** Book0

## What it's used for here

Jerusalem: Carta. Reads the Sinai and Egyptian inscriptions as Hebrew with biblical names; rejected by specialists (Wilson-Wright 2019 and others) because the readings require invented sign values and a Hebrew distinct from Canaanite that is not attested so early. URL is a published review (Brumwell, Downside Review 136, 2018).

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[The Hebrew readings require sign values the descendant scripts do not support and a Hebrew distinct from Canaanite…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEE9705MWHB/the-hebrew-readings-require-sign-values-the-descendant)

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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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Douglas Petrovich (2016). The World's Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto-Consonantal Script. https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580618791693
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