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Died: Hershel Shanks, Editor Who Saved Biblical Archaeolog...... | News & Reporting

Hershel Shanks battled top scholars to make the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public.
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Image: Biblical Archaeology Review / Edits by Mallory Rentsch
Hershel Shanks, the founder and longtime editor of
Biblical Archaeology Review, died on Friday at the age of 90.
With his popular bi-monthly magazine, Shanks trumpeted the latest discoveries at digs across the Holy Land, promoted (and sometimes prompted) fierce archaeological controversies, and tirelessly advocated for public access to the latest scholarship.
Shanks had no credentials in archaeology, biblical studies, or the ancient Near East. He was a lawyer. He nonetheless did more than anyone in recent memory to stimulate biblical archaeology. ....

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Alphabet: Canaanite miners in Ancient Egypt made simple letters from intricate hieroglyphs

Isreali Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser believes this was not the product of elites
She thinks the Canaanites borrowed from hieroglyphs to create their own letters
For example, the shape of their first letter came from the hieroglyph for an ox
In their language, this would have been pronounced aleph becoming a
Similarly, b came from the glyph for a house, which they pronounced as bêt
This Sinaitic alphabet would evolve into the writing system that we use today
The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, a study claimed. ....

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