The origins of the West Semitic alphabet in Egyptian scripts
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| Colección: | The Catholic Biblical quarterly. Monograph series ;
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- INTRODUCTION – The aims of this monograph – Terms – The egyptian prototypes of the alphbetic letter forms – The proto-canaanite letter forms and stances – The acrophonic letter names – The format for titles end usage of names in chapters 2 and 3 – The two orders of the letters – A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTO-CANAANITE ALPHABET – CONCLUSIONS – The egyptian antecedents of the proto-canaanite letter forms – Letter names – Chronological concerns – A preliminary correlation of the selection of certain signs with aspects of the material culture – The adoption and adaptation of signs depicting the human form – Summary: The relative simplicity of the proto-canaanite alphabet.