Is the bible authoritive and truly inspired?

Peg writes:Dont forget that the Greeks used the Hebrew alphabet as the basis for their own language...so if the word chaldea is believed to be Greek, it was very possibly hebrew first.

Peg writes:If you look closely at the greek alphabet and the Hebrew, you'll see that it more closely resembles Hebrew then Phoenician.

Ancient Scripts writes:The Phoenician script is an important "trunk" in the alphabet tree, in that many modern scripts can be traced through it. Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek scripts are all descended from Phoenician.

According to contemporary scholars, the original Hebrew script developed alongside others in the region during the course of the late second and first millennia BCE; it is closely related to the Phoenician script, which itself probably gave rise to the use of alphabetic writing in Greece (Greek). It is sometimes claimed that around the 10th century BCE [1][verification needed] a distinct Hebrew variant, the original "Hebrew script", emerged, which was widely used in the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah until they fell in the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, respectively. It is not straightforward, however, to distinguish Israelite/Judahite scripts from others which were in use in the immediate area, most notably by the Moabites and Ammonites.Following the Babylonian exile, Jews gradually stopped using the Hebrew script, and instead adopted the Aramaic script (another offshoot of the same family of scripts). This script, used for writing Hebrew, later evolved into the Jewish, or "square" script, that is still used today[citation needed]. Closely related scripts were in use all over the Middle East for several hundred years, but following the rise of Christianity (and later, the rise of Islam), they gave way to the Roman and Arabic alphabets, respectively.The Hebrew alphabet was later adapted in order to write down the languages of the Jewish diaspora (Karaim, Judo-Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish, etc.), and was retained all the while in relatively unadapted form throughout the diaspora for Hebrew, which remained the language of Jewish law, scriptures and scholarship. The Hebrew alphabet was also retained as the alphabet used for writing down the Hebrew language during its rebirth as an everyday modern language starting in the 18th to 19th century.

Origin of Hebrew Alphabet by Dr. Mark Lidzbarsky, Privat-Docent of Semitic Philology at the University of Kiel, Germany writes:The characters of the Hebrew Alphabet are derived from the so-called Phenician or Old Semitic letters, to which almost all systems of letters now in use, even the Roman, can be traced. But this latter is in mediate relation only to the original source, while the Hebrew Alphabet has kept closer to the primitive signs.

'A History of the Hebrew Language' writes:Phonecian writing is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite system, and from these developed the Paleo-Hebrew script (c. 800 BCE) and the Aramaic script c. 700 BCE), which was adopted by Hebrew after the Babylonian exile...Generally, a writing system was adapted to the phonemics of a particular languag - in this respect, it is noteworthy that the system employed by the Phonecian, the ancestor of the Hebrew and Aramaic scipts, had by the twelfth century BCE already dropped five characters, reflecting the fact that Phonecian has just twenty-two consonantal phonemes.

Peg writes:but you are right to say its Phoenician, so long as you take into account that Phoenician is derived from other semitic languages.

Myself writes:Actually,the Greek alphabet was derived from the Phonecian alphabet which is itself derived from pro-Canaanite/Sumerian cuneiform alphabets.

Peg writes:what is interesting though, and this is why i was thinking that its more derived from the hebrew (which is almost identicle to the pheonecian), is that the Hebrew word for "alphabet" derived from the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet; Aleph and Bet and the greeks used these same two letters to represent their 'alphabet'.i dont know if the pheonecians had a word for alphabet, perhaps your research skills could dig something up?

Wikipedia article 'Alphabet' writes:The word actually originates from the first two letters in the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph and Bet. However, some believe that word "alphabet' came into Middle English from the Late Latin word Alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Ancient Greek Alphabetos, from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and meant ox and house respectively.