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Jewish square script = Assyrian writing (1)

Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Alphabetic script
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.02 Writing systems and writing media
11.02.02 Alphabetic script
Aramaic alphabet as “Assyrian script” (2)
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.07 Aramaic alphabet as “Assyrian script” (2)
Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.02 Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria

Keywords
Assyria
Hebrew language
scripts

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Jewish philosophers and scholars

Text
The Jewish square script is called “Assyrian writing” (kĕtāb̲ Ašūrî) in the Talmud, “because the Jews brought it with them from Aššur”.

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Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 21b-22a
Palestinian Talmud, Megilla 1.71b

Simo Parpola

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