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Notes and Communications: Jewish and Other Semitic Texts Written in Egyptian Characters

TitleNotes and Communications: Jewish and Other Semitic Texts Written in Egyptian Characters
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1996
AuthorsTvedtnes, John A., and Stephen D. Ricks
JournalJournal of Book of Mormon Studies
Volume5
Issue2
Pagination156-163
Type of ArticleNotes and Communications
KeywordsAncient Near East; Language; Language - Hebrew; Language - Reformed Egyptian; Script
Abstract

An Egyptian script was possibly used to write Hebrew text on the Nephite record. Documents from the correct location and time period have texts and languages in varying scripts that lend credence to this scribal phenomenon.

URLhttps://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol5/iss2/7