Search for Alphabet’s Origins Wins “Best of BAR”
Orly Goldwasser
The winner was selected by judges P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., and Katharina Galor. McCarter, a leading paleographer and expert on the origin of the alphabet, is William Foxwell Albright Professor in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at The Johns Hopkins University. Galor is visiting assistant professor at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University and is also codirector of the excavations of the ancient port city of Apollonia-Arsuf along the coast of Israel.
The $1,000 award was made possible by the generous support of the Leopold and Clara M. Fellner charitable foundation through its longtime trustee, Frederick L. Simmons.
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Francamente importante el articulo “Como el alfabeto nació del jeroglífico. Lo he estudiado minuciosamente, ya que llevo 53 años dedicado a la investigación del origen de la escritura en la Península Ibérica; en la actualidad estoy escribiesen el libro donde volcaré toda el estudio, que será un honor enviárselo. La vieja escritura de la Península Ibérica, está asociada al mundo funerario, en pleno Neolítico. De cualquier forma, su articulo me ha servido para la investigación que llevo a cabo. Enhorabuena y cuente usted con mi admiración y apoyo. Prof. Juan Manuel Muñoz Gambero