Actually, Mike, the early Hebrews had no alphabet, at least  not until they moved to Egypt and the Egyptians taught them writing (or so tradition has it).  The story of Abraham was oral tradition until it was written down during King David's reign.

Kat

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Collis <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Oct 3, 2003 2:27 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: religion and politics (long-ish);  was RE: Brother in Law

Excuse me Trish, but I beg to differ with you.   Writing was developed
way before Abraham, annd there were at least two languages written at
the time of Abraham.

Trisha Cummings wrote:

>Hi Kyle,
>=20
>    Oral history is what they had - 6,000 years ago. The Jews have been =
>around I believe they are in year  5764. At some point they existed =
>before writing. Have Mag date the Torah and other Jewish books for you - =
>but I am fairly sure there was a time when they were oral, and then =
>became recorded. Kyle, I am okay talking about this - hopefully people =
>aren't offended by differing points from which to view things.=20
>
>  I believe the early followers I was talking about where already =
>exterminated by 200 CE
>
>By the way - how are doing these days?
>