Les souscriptions de fin de chapitre dans le Sefer ha-shorashim et le stemma codicum by Judith Kogel

“…A large number of manuscripts of David Qimḥi’s Dictionary of Roots, the Sefer ha-Shorashim, completed circa 1205, have formulae of two lines at the end of some of the twenty-two chapters corresponding to the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The original text was very sober, “The letter alef is finished and I will begin the letter bet”, as it appears in one of the earliest witnesses. …”
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Is the Study of Hebrew Useless for Orthodox Theologians? A Response to Some Recent Assertions Put Forward by Jean-Claude Larchet by Constantin Horia Oancea

“…Both the Hebrew language and the Hebrew alphabet played a significant role in their theoretical considerations on the canon of the Holy Scripture. …”
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The Education of Children and Youth in the Seventeenth Century Amsterdam’s Western Sephardi Community by Julia R. Lieberman

“…The newly formed school educated male children as young as five years old and consisted of six grades, starting with the teaching of the Hebrew alphabet, and ending with the Talmud. In 1637, the congregation founded the “Ets Haim” [Tree of Life] confraternity to provide stipends to older, deserving, and talented students, so that they remained in school. …”
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Create distinctive databases of ancient languages and using a computer vision model to accurately recognize and classify them by Elaf A. Saeed, Ammar D. Jasim, Munther A. Abdul Malik

“…We propose a deep-learning-based sign detector method to speed up this procedure to identify and group cuneiform tablet images according to Hebrew letter content. The Hebrew alphabet is notoriously difficult and costly to gather the training data needed for deep learning, which entails enclosing Hebrew characters in boxes. …”
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