The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient ...

Biblical dates for the Israelites’ stay in Egypt are unreliable, they say. ... Armed with the entire fledgling alphabet, he translated 18 Hebrew inscriptions from three Egyptian sites.

The content, which has some missing letters, is similar to some Biblical scriptures, such as Isaiah 1:17, Psalms 72:3, and Exodus 23:3, but does not appear to be copied from any Biblical text.

Teaching Biblical Hebrew ... First I teach the alphabet, then the vowels, the other markers like the daggesh, before moving on to nouns—two genders, and the verbs, ...