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The hand the Hebrew Bible is written in.
Also known as: Square script, Assyrian script, Ktav Ashuri
The Aramaic script from which the square Hebrew letters descend.
Writes Aramaic and, in its later form, Hebrew in the squared letters still used.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Replaced the older Palaeo-Hebrew letters for writing Hebrew, so the script of the Hebrew Bible is Aramaic in origin and the older Hebrew letters survive mainly on coins.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Letters of even height built on a squared frame with heavy horizontal tops, written right to left.