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Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton

From: "Tony Costa" <tmcos AT hotmail.com>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:09:20

Dear Friends,

Some of the recent discussions on the Mesha Stele has raised some interesting questions. I noticed that in the English translation of the Stele the Name of the God of Israel is pronounced (with all due respect to our Jewish friends) "Yahweh". I understand that we really do not know how exactly the Name YHWH was pronounced because of the absence of vowels in ancient Hebrew and we can only conjecture at its exact pronunciation.Does anyone know exactly how the name of Israel's God is written in the Mesha Stele? I assume the Moabites shared a Semitic language which would also be devoid of vowels? Many thanks.

Tony Costa
University of Toronto
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Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Tony Costa, 02/12/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Liz Fried, 02/12/2001
- Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Stig Norin, 02/13/2001
- Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Eduardo M. Acuna, 02/14/2001
- Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Charles David Isbell, 02/15/2001
- RE: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Liz Fried, 02/15/2001
- Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Dave Washburn, 02/15/2001
- Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Rolf Furuli, 02/15/2001
- Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Eduardo M. Acuna, 02/15/2001
- Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Charles David Isbell, 02/15/2001
- RE: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton, Peter Kirk, 02/15/2001