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One of the oldest Hebrew texts is a farming calendar
The Gezer Calendar, scratched on limestone, lists the agricultural months: harvest, planting, flax, barley, pruning, summer fruit.
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It appears to be a scribal exercise by a practiced hand. A similar early find, the Zayit Stone, simply lists the alphabet's twenty-two letters in order, an 'abecedary' for practice.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 68–70
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