China’s Growing Military Alliance with Iran
Each wants to supplant America’s dominance in its region.
November 22, 2016
Ancient Egyptian Tablets May Contain the Earliest Known Form of Hebrew
They might even mention Joseph and Moses.
Scholars have long believed that ancient Semitic alphabets were derived from Egyptian hieroglyphics. Thus, the symbol for house (Hebrew bayit) came to stand for the sound b, the symbol for water (Hebrew mayim) for the sound m, etc. This system was then adopted by other Near Eastern peoples, although which used it first remains unknown. Speaking at a recent academic conference, the archaeologist Douglas Petrovich claimed to have deciphered the earliest extant inscriptions in this writing system—found on several Egyptian stone tablets—by reading them as if they were Hebrew. The inscriptions date to the 19th century BCE, when, according to the biblical account, the Israelites settled in Egypt. Bruce Bower writes:
November 22, 2016
Anti-Semitism Isn’t Back. It Never Went Away.
Only now the ADL and Mayor de Blasio have taken notice.
Fatah Fades into Irrelevance
It’s lost the support of its people and its former Arab patrons.
Ancient Egyptian Tablets May Contain the Earliest Known Form of Hebrew
They might even mention Joseph and Moses.
Making Sense of S. Y. Agnon’s Allusions
The art of annotation.