1232, Yavneh When he famously traveled from his native Spain to the Holy Land, Benjamin of Tuleda, who was Jewish, remarked on the peculiar Hebrew alphabet of the many Samaratin communities he encountered. The Samaratins traced their lineage to the ancient Israelites but did not consider themselves Jewish, and their alphabet is a direct descendent of the ancient Paleo-Hebrew once used by all Jews.
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