(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates that he is a man of letters.)  By looking at its first few letters, you'll see the Russian alphabet is based largely on this much more ancient alphabet
The first clue 
was that the Old Testament never mentioned the ..... when the Jews question how 
Christ knows letters, they can't understand it ... [23] And he said to them: 
Doubtless you will say to me this ......