There was an original Hebrew alphabet. The Aramaic script was adopted when Israel was conquered by the Persian Empire as all the empire used Aramaic. It's a go

There was an original Hebrew alphabet. The Aramaic script was adopted when Israel was conquered by the Persian Empire as all the empire used Aramaic. It's a good thing, though, the proto-Hebrew is much uglier (IMO) than the square script. But judge for yourself which glyphs you prefer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet