<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> RMB:<br>
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>RSM notes that Kesav Ashuris is more likely from "osher" than Assyria, as<br>
it's not a script used in Assyria.<br>
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>Thinking out loud:<br>
OTOH, Aramaic was the Assyrian language, and Kesav Ashuris was our Aramaic<br>
kesav, so maybe the name reached it by that two-step association.<br>
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What we call square Hebrew certainly *was* the Aramaic script. See, eg, an example of the Elephantine papyrus<br>
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http://www.ancientsudan.org/images/14_articles_ElephantinePapyrusCol6cmh.gif<br>
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Written in Aramaic, the language and the script, this is an ancestor of our square script, or at least related if you like. <br>
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SW<br>
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