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  • From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Historical David (Tel-Dan)
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 05:47:58 -0500


> The Tel-Dan inscription
> is a "maybe" but ambiguous on orthographic grounds.

Lemaire: JSOT 1998: 10
"although there were many discussions about the syntagma BYTDWD, there is
no epigraphical and historical problem about it. ... the mention of
B(Y)TDWD by two enemies of Judah very probably reveals that it was part of
the offical diplomatic language of this period."

the problem isn't with the tel dan inscription, and calling it ambiguous is
not to do it justice. lemaire's got it right, both tel dan and moav.

braxot
randall buth




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