nephicode.blogspot.com Now the letter they claim this image represents is the letter Shin (šin or Sheen), the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads or alef-beis (alphabet), including Phoenician Shin, Hebrew Shin ש, Aramaic Shin, Syriac Shin, and Arabic Shin ش. Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant or the sound sh. Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Sigma, and the letter Sha in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts.
The point is, the letter shown in the image above of the marks in a field in Ohio, do not necessarily even represent and early, middle or even late Hebrew letter. The North American theorists using this letter in such a manner is ill-founded since the differences between Biblical (classic) Hebrew is quite different than Hebrew of the AD period. and current since 1900. In this latter period, Hebrew eventually developed into Mishnaic Hebrew, spoken until the fifth century AD.
It should be noted that the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (Palaeo-Hebrew), was the script used in the historic kingdoms of Israel and Judah by Israelites. It is a variant of the Phoenician alphabet (abjad) of 22 (consonantal) letters. Archeology dates usage of P-H for writing the Hebrew language to the 10th century BC, and by the 5th century, P-H was subsumed by the Imperial Aramaic abjad with little remnant—the Aramaic sharing a common protolanguage with a simpler font.
The present Jewish “square-script” (Hebrew aleph beit) abjad evolved from the Aramaic. Samaritans use a P-H derivative known as the Samarian alphabet. Usage of P-H is negligible today but it survived in nostalgia on a coin no longer in circulation, and the logo of a town in northern Israel.
Consequently, the theorists’ claim that this letter was “very sacred,” and in the Hebrew language of the BC period is inaccurate. Not until the modern Hebrew alphabet do we find such a letter.
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