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  • 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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