I was wondering if you have thought about the claim in the Talmud that our modern Hebrew script is from Assyrian origin. The Talmud makes references to the ancient Hebrew script possibly being the original one in which the Torah was written, and eventually changing the script of the Torah to Assyrian script.
Moreover, we know that the Assyrian Script was the one used by the dominant empire when the Jews were in exile which makes it even more reasonable that the Jews, the subordinate minority, were the ones who adopted the script, instead of the other way around, the dominant empire widely adopting the part of the culture of a subordinate minority.
Do you know of a way of harmonizing this idea with the theory of the Kabbalists?
Hi Rabbi. Great post!
I was wondering if you have thought about the claim in the Talmud that our modern Hebrew script is from Assyrian origin. The Talmud makes references to the ancient Hebrew script possibly being the original one in which the Torah was written, and eventually changing the script of the Torah to Assyrian script.
Moreover, we know that the Assyrian Script was the one used by the dominant empire when the Jews were in exile which makes it even more reasonable that the Jews, the subordinate minority, were the ones who adopted the script, instead of the other way around, the dominant empire widely adopting the part of the culture of a subordinate minority.
Do you know of a way of harmonizing this idea with the theory of the Kabbalists?
Regards!