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Ramseyer-Northern Bible Society Collection
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The Hebrew and Arabic alphabets developed directly from the Phoenician and have similarities of form, although the Arabic became cursive in style and the Hebrew square. Both read from right to left. Arabic script has been used for many languages where Islam came to be the dominant religion, such as Malay and Urdu. Hebrew also has been used for Yiddish (a form of German) and some forms of Arabic (e.g., Tunisian) where there was a sizeable Jewish population.
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 Arabic St. John; London British and Foreign Bible Society, 1897 [1379B] |
 Urdu New Testament; London British and Foreign Bible Society, 1860 [1025] |
 Malay Genesis; London British and Foreign Bible Society, 1894 [1030] |
 Judeo-Tunisian St. Luke; London British and Foreign Bible Society, 1900 [1385] |
 Hebrew New Testament; London, Scripture Gift Mission, 1945 [93] |
 Yiddish Old Testament; Chicago, Chicago Hebrew Mission, 1918 [548] |
