When verbal communication of a thought, idea or command is not received or understood, the exasperated speaker might use the expression, "Do I have to draw you a picture?" God drew the ancient Israelites pictures so they would not miss what He was speaking to them through the Torah. He introduced a 22-letter alphabet in pictographic script, using letter symbols or word pictures that a Semitic, tent-dwelling society would understand.
Over time the Hebrew alphabet evolved and the pictographs became a lost language. But a few Bible scholars, including Jeff Benner of the Ancient Hebrew Research Center, are revisiting this ancient script to help translate the Hebrew Scriptures more accurate[...]