Israelites in Egypt may have turned hieroglyphs into letters

The Daily Mail quoted Thomas Schneider, a UBC professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern studies, who has challenged a theory that Hebrew was the first alphabet.

“As part of Douglas Petrovich’s proposal that the Early Alphabetic Inscriptions are Hebrew, he has proposed to read a word in one of the Egyptian inscriptions from Serabit el-Khadem as the word for Hebrew. This, however, is just not correct,” Schneider wrote in a blog post.