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Where did the Hebrew alphabet come from? (Data Over Dogma Classic)

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0:00 Taking issue with Hebrew-letter videos

0:49 Kabbalah and its precursors

1:23 Today’s Hebrew script isn’t the original

4:39 Writing without vowels

6:21 Genesis 1:1 and the vowel problem

8:29 From pictures to an alphabet

9:51 Aleph and bet

11:52 From hieroglyphs to Hebrew

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