Dating back to the forced conversion of Jews to Christianity in 16th century Portugal, a team of Portuguese researchers has discovered a “secret code” of Hebrew letters and markings left on ...

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 ...

Say what. Alphabetic inscriptions on an ancient stone slab (left) have been identified by a researcher as Hebrew and translated. A drawing of the slab’s inscriptions (right) shows early Hebrew ...

The professor combined earlier identifications of some letters in the ancient alphabet with his own interpretation of disputed letters to create the 'Hebrew 1.0' script. RELATED ARTICLES Previous ...

Archaeologists working in the West Bank say they’ve discovered a tiny "curse tablet," barely larger than a postage stamp, inscribed with ancient letters in an early form of Hebrew that call on ...

Immerse yourself in the wisdom of the Hebrew letters with our engaging video series. Start with “Part 1: The Hebrew Alphabet” to connect with the divine essence of these ancient symbols.

JERUSALEM — A trove of ancient manuscripts in Hebrew characters rescued from caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan is providing the first physical evidence of a Jewish community ...

Some of the examples of this pattern that I find most fascinating are also the most ancient: They come from Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism that first appeared in print in the 12th century C.E.

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“A truly beautiful letter,” writes Izzy Pludwinski in his book “The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter” (Brandeis University Press, 2023), “will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce.” The book ...