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McCarter, Jr., P. Kyle. The Antiquity of the Greek Alphabet and the Early Phoenician Scripts. Harvard Semitic Monographs 9. Missoula: Scholars Press, 1975.

August 16, 2007

McCarter’s dissertation examines the date at which the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician script following the typological approaches of Albright and Cross. He traces the development of the Phoenician script from the 10th to 8th centuries BCE and makes comparison of the letterforms with the early Greek scripts. Following Carpenter, the point of borrowing is [...]