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Exile and a New Script (500s BC)
After Jerusalem’s fall (586 BC), Yhwh’s people were exiled to Babylon. There, scribes began copying sacred Hebrew text in Aramaic-style “square” script (Ketav Ashuri).
✔️ No vowels added
✔️ Yhwh’s Name (יהוה) preserved
✔️ Same Torah, Prophets, Writings
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Ezra Restores the Scrolls (450–400 BC)
Ezra returned from Babylon with Torah scrolls in the new script. He read aloud from this Bible (Nehemiah 8), proving vowels were only for speech, not for writing.
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The Word Spreads — Without Corruption (400–100 BC)
For centuries, this script copied and preserved the Torah faithfully.
✔️ Dead Sea Scrolls (250 BC–50 AD) show Torah, Isaiah, Psalms, and more in Ketav Ashuri
✔️ No vowel markings
✔️ No Greek influence
✔️ Yhwh’s Name written directly
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Yeshua Reads This Bible (30 AD)
In Nazareth’s synagogue (Luke 4), Yeshua read from an Isaiah scroll written in Early Square Script — no vowels, no Masoretic or Greek edits.
🔚 The Legacy Lives On
This was the Bible of Ezra, Yeshua, and The Way.
✔️ Consonants only
✔️ Yhwh’s Name untouched
✔️ Torah unchanged
Today, it stands as one of only four trusted sources: Paleo-Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Aramaic Daniel/Ezra, and Early Square Script — all vowel-free, all faithful.
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