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So where can I read the manuscripts? Is there an english translation available? Searched for half an hour and didn’t find anything..

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Page 37 (PDF numbering) of this 1958 research paper reproduces a version published in an 1883 issue of 'The Athenaeum':

http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1958/...

For anyone clicking through and scrolling to page 37: this is in Hebrew, not English. I don’t see an English translation there.

That’s not Hebrew technically either it uses the Phoenician alphabet or a variation of it.

I can read the Dead Sea scrolls I can’t read what ever this is :(

it is Hebrew, just in a now defunct script. I didn't see anything majorly informative in the transcription, in case you were wondering.

Well it’s not Hebrew, the Hebrew alphabet is based on Aramaic in fact it’s essentially identical to “square” aka western Aramaic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic

Before that proto/paleo-Hebrew used the same Canaanite scripts that were common in the region, the closest thing we have to that today is Samaritan.

Even in rabbinic Hebrew, the name for this script is כתב עברי (Hebrew writing), and the name for the script used today is כתב אשורית (Assyrian writing).

i meant that Hebrew has several scripts.

Pre-captivity Hebrew used the Phoenician alphabet, post exile the Chaldean (square) one.

They seem to have been lost over a century ago. There was no interest in preserving them, as they were assumed to be forgeries.

find any transalations into modern hebrew script?

... or English?

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