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The older Hebrew letters, still in use.
Also known as: Samaritan Hebrew script
The script descended from Palaeo-Hebrew and retained by the Samaritan community.
Writes the Samaritan Pentateuch and Samaritan liturgical texts.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Continues the Palaeo-Hebrew letters that Jewish practice abandoned for the Aramaic square script, so the two communities' Bibles are written in scripts that diverged over two thousand years ago.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular letters descended from the Palaeo-Hebrew forms, distinct in shape from the square Hebrew letters, written right to left.