The earliest known Hebrew text written in a Proto-Canaanite script has been discovered by Hebrew University archaeologists in an ancient city in the area where legend has it that David slew Goliath -- ...

JERUSALEM — On June 11, Israeli typeface designer and professor Liron Lavi Turkenich found herself teaching a new student: her country’s president, Reuven Rivlin. Turkenich, a 32-year-old professor of ...

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ON the return to England of the members of the Marston-Wellcome Archaeological Expedition to Lachish at the close of excavations for the season 1937–38, further discoveries of examples of early Hebrew ...

S.D. Luzzatto's controversy with I.S. Reggio concerning the origins of the Hebrew alphabet is discussed. Reggio argued that Hebrew script was unknown in Moses' time; a single person could not possibly ...

A sculpture featuring Aravrit forms the centerpiece of the Israel pavilion at the 2020 World Expo in Dubai. (JTA) — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic ...

An analysis by prominent biblical epigraphers of a textual inscription within the controversial "sign of Jonah" engraving discovered in a first century CE Jerusalem tomb appears to strongly support ...

Following the recent announcement of the discovery of the earliest known Christian imagery in the exploration of a sealed first century Jerusalem tomb, controversy predictably erupted, with numerous ...

Though Hebrew is recognized as one of the three official languages of the mandated territory of Palestine, the acceptance of telegrams in Hebrew script is not obligatory upon the Palestine postal ...