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The Alphabet at the Turn of the Millennium addresses the epigraphical and archaeological aspects of the West Semitic, Arabian, Phrygian and Greek alphabets ca. 1150–750 BCE, and explores the processes and background that brought about the transition from the Proto-Canaanite to the Phoenician-Aramaic and Hebrew scripts in the first half of the ninth century, to the genesis of the Arabian alphabet at about the same time, and to the transmission of the alphabet to the Phrygians and Greeks ca. one hundred years later.