Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
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The Paleo-Hebrew script,, also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, including pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew, from southern C
Photograph of section of the Zayit Stone, 10th century BCE: (right-to-left) the letters waw, he, het, zayin, tet (𐤅𐤄𐤇𐤆𐤈)
Paleo-Hebrew signet ring discovered in Jerusalem's City of David. City of David Archive, Eliyahu Yannai.
Gezer calendar
Drawing of the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon
Samaritan script
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The Samaritan Hebrew script, or simply Samaritan script, is the alphabet used by the Samaritans for their religious and liturgical writings. It serves as the script of the Samaritan Pentateuch, of tex
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
…kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah. It is considered to be the script used to record the original texts of the Bible. Due to its similarity to the Samaritan script, the Talmud states that the Samaritans still used this script. The Talmud described it as the "Livonaʾa script" (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: לִיבּוֹנָאָה…
Samaritan Leviticus
4th-century Samaritan inscription from the Sha'alvim synagogue reading "The Lord will reign forever and ever," on display at the Good Samaritan Museum
Ancient inscription in Samaritan Hebrew. From a photo c. 1900 by the Palestine Exploration Fund.