Originally Posted by ilnjscb

That isn't widely accepted, just a theory without much scholarly provenance based on one artifact. What is generally accepted is that the first consonant alphabets were Semitic, and you are correct the first real alphabet was Greek. The ancient Greeks - what couldn't they do?

Jesus would have died a nobody if Constantine hadn't needed a religion where one guy, who also happens to be the emperor, can rule everything including religion. Christianity was codified in the 400s, a loooong time after historical Yeshua of Nazareth.

And Mohammed would have died a nobody if Saladin and later the Ottoman empire hadn't made him famous 500 years later.

So the lesson is, if you want to be a prophet, say a lot of vague nonsense that a tyrannical homicidal psychopath can edit and use 400-500 years later to justify massive bloodshed and conquest while claiming to be "holy" and converting everyone by the sword.

In that sense the new prophets are Marx and Engels.