Tuesday, 2/8/17
As we launch into reading the
Old Testament it is good to recall when it was put into writing. That was around 600 B.C.
Although Greek, Hebrew \
and Latin writing appear different from
one another, they have similar sounding words, and they come from alphabets of
letters in similar sequences.
Up until 1100 B.C. the
writing of Chinese, Sumeria, and Egypt
wetre the only ancient ways of writing. They wrote with pictures o complete
words.
Then, in 1100 B.C. it occurred
to the the manage of a copper mind in the Sianni that every word is made up of little sounds.
Like the Egyptian word for a
deer is aleph, and the Egyptian word or a room is beth. He put them together
for the first alphabet.
The Jews took five hundred
years to develop their own Hebrew alphabet. After they were made captives in
Babylon they saw how the people there had put their sacred legends Into
writing, they decided on doing the same. They gathered their priests, lawyers,
and tribal story tellers, \ combining their legends into one Bible.
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