|
Ten Commandments
67
expressed already by professor Hubert
Grimme,
an expert of proto-Sinaitic
inscriptions, in his
article on the
"Alphabet" in the Encyclopaedia
Judaica
of 1928, but he was unable to prove
it.6)
§
4. Why Alef and Bet were
placed at the
top of the alphabetical
order is a question about
which I had
always been wondering.7)
The text
of the Ten Commandments
begins with the
Hebrew word
ANKI (English "I"), and
thus
with the letter Alef, as can
be seen at the first
glance.8) If it was, indeed,
the first letter of the
末末末末末末末末
of their state as the Romans, later
on, counted the years after
the foundation
of their city. Thus King Solomon
began to build
the First Temple
in the 4th year of
his reign (961 B. C. E.)
and in
the 480th year after the Exodus
(1. Kings 6, 1), which
was in
1441 B. C. E. The
accuracy of historical chronology
does not stand upon astronomical niceties,
but on the continuity
of counting the
recurring seasons of the year or the
number of
springs in the life of a
republic rather than an individual, regardless of
whether spring is early or late in a
particular year.
6) Cf. Hubert Grimme, op. cit.
supra at 405; and similarly Kurt Galling
in his article "Dekalog" in the
Encyclopaedia Judaica
of 1930 at
899. Since the
proto-Sinaitic inscription on
the
pedestal of a small
sphinx found by Sir Flinders
Petrie is
generally dated
around 1500 B. C. E., it is
very close in time
and place to the
two stone tablets of the Torah
of Moses from
the Sinai, and would
be only a few decades earlier.
7) See TORAH OF THE
ALPHABET (N. 1) p.
21.
8) This fact could be neglected, if
both the sarcophagus of King Achiram
of Byblos and the Exodus were
to be dated
|
|
– 7 –
  
|
http://back.to/moses 
This site
in The Jewish
WebRing Exchange is owned
