Wednesday, November 09, 2005  What was the first language?
Genesis 11:1  Nice, but could the "one language" have been
Phonecian?  We see in today's paper that archeologists have
found a tablet inscribed with two lines of an alphabet dating to
the 10th century BCE. The string of aleph-beth-gimels appear to
be an early rendering of the emerging Hebrew alphabet but it's
unclear if the language is Phoenician, Hebrew or a blend of
both. The best guess, scholars say, is that the find represents
the Hebrew language still in transition from its Phoenician
roots. The suggestion, supported by this new discovery, is that
Hebrew was not the language of Israel until aproximately the the
time of David, because it was during the time of David that the
language first developed.  Notes Below Yes, skeptics, we know
the bible itself contradicts the idea that multiple languages
were created at the Tower of Babal, reporting in verses which
appear before the Tower of Babel story that the children of Noah
has previously spread out