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OP’s author is a prof. of religious studies and has a book on Hebrews so possibly his point of view requires the preeminence of Hebrew alphabet.

I also found some of the reasoning questionable. The reason Latin teaching was the job of Greek slaves was precisely because they were Greeks and Roman nouveau rich were adorning the education of their children. Who teaches the children of elite today? Millionaires or smart poor people? The second questionable idea of his is that “sex” and stuff like that are not of interest to “elite”. This confused thinking disregarding content for medium also was a rather weak argument. Maybe the elite were using writing as a private very exclusive chat app and sending textual selfies.

Hebrew must be first if you are a religious person who believes in God speaking Hebrew letters and creating the world. It just doesn’t work if it turns out the Egyptians created the alphabet.

[OnlyMortal]

Well, a whole load of them did come from ancient Egypt and Babylon.

Given the Moses of Exodus came from Egypt, it’s highly unlikely he created a new script when wandering the desert. I’d imagine he had more critical issues.

Also, he was brought up as an Egyptian royal and would have been taught how to write.

It is plausible that the folks from Babylon brought their script too.

Perhaps it has origins in both.