ELI5-Why did Arabic and Hebrew develop as a right-to-left written script when the majority of people of right handed?

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To add to the question most religions of the time saw the left hand as a bad thing, so I’m assuming everyone regardless of dominance used their right hand. Also, wouldn’t the writing from right-to-left cause smudge errors in the script similar to how lefties get the “grey palm” when writing?

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It stems from how they wrote down texts in the old ages. By using a hammer and chisel it was easier to write right to left with the hammer hand being the dominant hand.

Later writing tools eventually developed into using ink instead. At this point most writing styles shifted from left to right, but Hebrew and Arabic remained using the same writing direction as they were set in stone preferring not to change.

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