Introduction to Serta

• In the Alphabet lessons so far, we have introduced you to the Aramaic Alphabet and we have taken a look at some of the most important scripts that have been used to write Aramaic down through the centuries.
• The first and most important of these is the 'Hebrew' Ashuri script. "Ashuri" means Assyrian. The Ashuri script was originally an Aramaic script which was later adopted by Hebrew after the Babylonian exile. This script is a very important starting point, because it is used by Biblical Aramaic, the Aramaic Targums, the Hebrew Bible and everything connected with Judaism. This includes prayers in Aramaic, the Massoretic notes of the Hebrew Bible which are in Aramaic, and many other things of interest.