Endnote 1 – A Very Brief History of Old Hebrew Script
Translations are taken from Shmuel Aḥituv, Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period (Jerusalem: Carta, 2008). The orthography of personal names has been simplified. For a beautiful introduction to Old Hebrew inscriptions, see the last book by the late, renowned paleographer Ada Yardeni, The National Hebrew Script: Up to the Babylonian Exile (Jerusalem: Carta, 2018).