SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes. Israelites living in Egypt ...

The Academy of the Hebrew Language, the official governing body of the modern Hebrew language, announced on Monday that from now on the Hebrew alphabet will consist of 23 letters. The name of the new ...

Approximately 4,000 years ago the original picture for the letter aleph was the head of an ox. About 3,000 years ago the picture was simplified and around this time the Greeks adopted this alphabet ...

"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

The Greek and Hebrew alphabets share a common heritage and thus have some key similarities. However, there are also ...

It’s common for young Jews to study Hebrew until the age of 13 — and then never interact with the language again. Hebrew school students learn the alphabet, but often have little understanding of what ...

Anton Fjortoft wrote that the modern Hebrew alphabet was virtually invented by a Jewish professor around 1948 (26 July, p 25). I don’t know which professor he is referring to, but the Hebrew alphabet ...