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Review title: Not to be trusted
Product review: The author gives an unjustified pride of place to the Hebrew language as the source of the Greek alphabet (that was actually the Phoenicians) and as the first to adopt vowels (that achievement is the Ugaritians', assuming you fail to credit, e.g., Akkadian, which has different signs for different consonant-vowel combinations) and spends a great deal of time spinning out Josephus' idea about the proper pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton without giving Josephus any credit, not even so much as a footnote citation. This author has no real academic credentials and is strangely intent on proving some kook-ish theories. In fact, Hebrew is just one of many very similar Northwest Semitic dialects that happened to survive because more of it was written down. It has no particular pedigree, and certainly not one that could justify the author's worshipful approach.
