[Avodah] Ksav Ivri and Ksav Ashur

[S.]

 RMB:

>RSM notes that Kesav Ashuris is more likely from "osher" than Assyria, as
it's not a script used in Assyria.

>Thinking out loud:
OTOH, Aramaic was the Assyrian language, and Kesav Ashuris was our Aramaic
kesav, so maybe the name reached it by that two-step association.

What we call square Hebrew certainly *was* the Aramaic script. See, eg, an example of the Elephantine papyrus

http://www.ancientsudan.org/images/14_articles_ElephantinePapyrusCol6cmh.gif

Written in Aramaic, the language and the script, this is an ancestor of our square script, or at least related if you like. 

SW
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