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the two stone Tablets of the
Law with the Ten Commandments on
them were hewn and written by
Moses in the Sinai in 1441
B. C. E. This is confirmed
by the proto-Sinaitic
inscriptions in Old Hebrew
found in the Sinai since 1905,
and generally dated around the
middle of the second millennium
before the common
era.32)
Three centuries after Moses
a sound change ocurred, in
which Hebrew lost the
"th"-sound setting it apart
from other Semitic languages.
Hence the original alphabet had
to have a special letter for "th"
that I spotted as
Tzadi.33) Thus,
languages
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32) The complete decipherment
of the proto-Sinaitic in- scription
on the pedestal of a
sphinx, now in the British
Museum (no. 41 748),
was presented, for the
first time, in the
TORAH OF THE
ALPHABET (N. 1)
pp. 9–12 and 32–39,
proving that it is Old
Hebrew, as already claimed
by Grimme, see above
text accompanying Note
3 (loc. cit. at 405).
Hebrew is the
language of Canaan
(Isaiah 19, 18),
for which Phoenicia is
a synonym, derived
from Egyptian Punt
or Hebrew Put
(Genesis 10, 6), see
Velikovsky (N. 5) chapter
3, and above Note 4.
33) Cf. TORAH
OF THE ALPHABET
(N. 1) p.73, and Ed
Metzler, Ten Commandments (N.
3) pp.27, 28
and 31. If this
sound change, by
which the tribes of
Israel could be distinguished
(Judges 12, 6), was
in full swing some 300
years after the Exodus from
Egypt (Judges 11, 26), it
may have taken approximately
another century until
all of Israel
had lost the ability
to pronounce "th"
correctly, so that
the letter Tzadi stood
for an "s"-sound at the beginning
of the Israelite monarchy.
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