Earliest Hebrew Alphabet at Tel Zayit!
In the 10th century BCE strata where we excavated last summer at Tel Zayit, we discovered what some scholars are calling the earliest Hebrew alphabet ever discovered. You can read about it in the Nov 9th New York Times. Ron Tappy, the project’s director, will be presenting this great news in more detail in Philadelphia at the annual meeting for the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Society of Biblical Literature.
