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Ed Metzler
A. Similarities of
Consecutive and Remote Letters in the
One-Dimensional Alphabetical Order
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3. The Roman alphabet, which spread over the
whole world, as well as the
Greek alphabet, from which the
Russian alphabet is derived,
are descendants of the ancient
Hebrew alphabet, also known as
the Phoenician alphabet, for
Phoenicia (Punt) or
Canaan is identical with
Solomonic Israel.4)
The cuneiform alphabet of Ugarit is
one of its earliest
descendants, while the
Arabic alphabet is one of
its latest. In some
alphabets the graphic
shapes of letters changed
beyond
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4) According to Herodotus, Histories, V,
58–61 the ancient Hebrew alphabet
as well as many other
arts and sciences
were imported to
Greece several centuries
before the classical
Greek period by
Kadmos (Hebrew
Kadmon "ancient
ancestor"), the legendary
founder of Thebes
and son of King
Achiram (Greek "Agenor")
of Tyre in
Phoenicia. Herodotus (Ibid.
VII, 89) calls all
Hebrew-speaking inhabitants 
of Canaan "Phoenicians",
and speaks of the Jews, who
had finished rebuilding the Second
Temple in 515 B. C.
E. (Ezra 6, 15),
correctly as those Phoenicians
who, by their own
account, migrated to
Canaan from the Red
Sea, obviously referring
to their Exodus
from Egypt. The
alphabet was exported by the
navy of King Solomon, and
his Tyrian allies as far
as southern Spain
(1. Kings 10, 22), cf.
Note 13 infra.
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