The Bible does not give any descriptive details of the “tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God” (Exodus 31:18). It merely says that God presented the tablets to Moses on top of Mount Sinai, which raises one very major question (apart from why give a nomad heavy stone tablets), namely: which alphabet were they written in?
One simple answer may be: none. Mainstream historians do not believe the book of Exodus’s account of two million Hebrews being captives in Egypt before being led across the Sinai for 40 years by Moses, where God fed them on magical manna, gave them the Ten Commandments, and finally escorted them to the land of Canaan where he had once promised Abraham (an old man from modern-day southern Iraq) that his people could settle. There is no scientific evidence for any of it in Egypt or the Sinai (two million people usually leave quite a bit of stuff for archaeologists to find). Even Goshen, the place in Egypt where it is said they lived, remains unidentified. On balance, most scholars consider Exodus to be ancient tribal folklore — like the battling Welsh dragons, the Indian Mahabharata, or the Norse cosmology. Even Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, has run numerous features explaining that the account of the Egyptian slavery, the Exodus, and delivery into the promised land as told in the Bible is legend, not hard history.
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