What do Hebrew and Baybayin have in common?
Like Baybayin, a pre-Spanish Philippine writing system, the Hebrew alphabet was originally written using a pictographic script. Hear Christian Cabuay, artist and author of “An Introduction to Baybayin” and Julie Seltzer, Torah Scribe-in-Residence at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, share their perspectives on these two writing systems.
Some questions to ponder as you watch:
- Can writing forms reveal information about belief systems? How so?
- Can writing be considered an art form? Why or why not?
- What are the similarities and differences between these two writing forms and that of languages you are familiar with?
- Can you make any additional connections?
Check out the conversation over at the Contemporary Jewish Museum: cjmvoices.blogspot.com
One Response to “What do Hebrew and Baybayin have in common?”
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emil yap on March 1st, 2012 at 2:17 am
hello, in 1994, a group a artists, academe, writers and historians agreed to promote the original baybayin script which are being modified by several individuals… some even added new scripts., anyway we then decided to researched for more.. we went to Batangas and Bicol for this projects…and for me I incorporate baybayin in almost all of my works…sad to say there are now several baybayin versions being propagated by individual artists.