Word: phoenicians
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to adopt four new half courses in the second half year. Semitic 10 hf. will be given by Professor G. F. Moore. The course will treat of the elements of the Phoenician language and will give interpretations of selected inscriptions. It is primarily for graduates and will meet twice a week. German 7 hf., for graduates and undergraduates, will be given by Dr. Jessen on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 11. The course will give an outline of the history of literary and aesthetic criticism in German literature during the eighteenth century...
...will also give a course in Phoenician on the elements of the language and the interpretation of selected inscriptions...
...resemblances between Cretan pictographs actually discovered at Knossos by Mr. Evans, and the "Phoenician" alphabet of the Moabite stone are very numerous and striking. On the other hand, those pointed out by de Rouge with Egyptian Hieratic of the XII Dynasty are almost purely fanciful...
...hypothesis may be made that the Eteocretans migrated to southern Syria and there became Semitized as the Philistines of Holy Writ. They carried with them from Crete a system of pictographs which was renamed and perfected in Syria, and from which was derived the "Phoenician" alphabet which in later days was restored to its originators by Cadmus...