Originally posted by tabibito
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Once a new alphabet was established, anything written in the former script would have become obsolete.
Hebrews had little interest in producing monuments, and writing materials, predominantly ink on plastered tablets of wood or clay it seems, were quite ephemeral. That leaves inscribed soft metals as the medium, for which there is also some evidence. The problem with the latter is that such things made good plunder.
It remains the current evidence is what we have to go on. The Canaanite/Phoenician/Ugarite culture dominated the Levant, the Hebrews were a minor Canaanite tribe until 800 BCE, Th large libraries of these cultures reflect this dominance, and that these writings as well as Babylonian and Sumerian writings were important in the compilation of the Pentateuch.
Recording records on soft metals is not common in all the cultures of the Levant, Egypt, and the Middle East in general.
Yes, the evidence cited in this thread, as well as the silver scrolls at approximately 600 BCD do support the evolution of the Hebrew language between 800-600 BCE.
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