Letters, Things and Texts The case of the bêṯ from Proto-Sinaitic to the Hebrew Biblical text

Abstract

The article presents the different material artifacts proposed as inspiration for the creation of the letter bêṯ during the formation of the Protosinaitic linking the space of the earth-soil-dust with the enclosures of the house-temple-tomb and characters that are found in the environment original miner and readers of the future Hebrew biblical text. The raised arms, used to represent the kȝ, graphically associated with the lost tribe of Serabit el-Khadim, ḥrἰ-pr, and the «houses of the kȝ» that would be inspiring the letter bêṯ in its origin, function as carmen figuratum identity of regeneration that the mines and, with wisdom literature, the Hebrew biblical text share.