Hebrew alphabet and was known by Jewish sages as the Ashuri alphabet (lit. "Assyrian"), since its origins were alleged to be from Assyria. Various "styles" (in current terms, "fonts") of representation of the Jewish script letters described in this article also exist, including a variety of cursive Hebrew styles. In the remainder of this article, the term "Hebrew alphabet" refers to the square script unless otherwise indicated. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. It does not have case, but five letters have different forms when used at the end of a word. Hebrew is written from right to left. Originally, the alphabet
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet third opinion was accepted by some early Jewish scholars, and rejected by others, partially because it was permitted to write the Torah in Greek. The Paleo-Hebrew script has been recently revived for specific use in several Sacred Name Bibles: including "Zikarown Say’fer", "The Besorah" and the "Halleluyah Scriptures". These translations use it for writing the Tetragrammaton and other divine names, incorporating these names written in this script in the midst of the English text. The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet was unified with the Phoenician alphabet and added to the Unicode Standard in July, 2006 with the release of version 5.0. The Unicode