God gave Humanity the Alphabet




Eupolemus knew

Understanding that God gave us the alphabet when He gave us the Ten Commandments, does not explain how it spread to the rest of the world. Remember the Philistines who were frequently giving the Israelites a hard time in the bible and even ruled them (Judges 13:1) at times? They are also called Sea People as they are ancestors of the Greeks and through their conquest were possibly able to spread the alphabet to the Phoenicians and the Greeks. Although this may appear to be a logical explanation, Eupolemus, (also mentioned in 1Maccabees 8:17) a Jewish historian is the most credible source who states in 158 BC that Moses "first wrote the laws for the Jews and then taught the alphabet to the Jews who passed it on to the Phoenicians who passed it on to the Greeks". God loves the world so much He gave humanity the alphabet through His Chosen People when He gave the Ten Commandments to Moses.

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