For an overview of the development of the Hebrew scripts, see Joseph Naveh, Early History of the Alphabet: An Introduction to West Semintic Epigraphy and Paleography Jerusalem: Magness Press, 1982) and Mark McLean, The Use and Development of Palaeo-Hebrew in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (dissertation, Harvard Univ., 1982). Navehs plate 14D shows a fragment of the Psalms Scroll written in square Hebrew, but with YHWH in paleo-Hebrew.
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