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From: mis@hou5h.UUCP (Meyer Steinberg)
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Subject: Re: Nestorian and Jacobite Characters -- what are they?
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 12:41:47 EST
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I am not sure what Nestorian and Jacobite characters are but I know
of 2 types. There is K'tav Ivrit, an old form of characters. 
Some books show what they look like: the pocket dictionary of
by Ahud Ben Yehuda (not sure if this is the correct name, its the small yellow
and blue ones) show the characters.
The modern Hebrew characters are called K'tav Ashurit and
(according to what I learnt) where developed by Ezra.

There is some dicussion on how the tranformation came about,
I don't remember where, try encyclopedia Judaica.


Meyer Steinberg