Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>]

I compared the two transcriptions Jim mentioned, and I'm puzzled by
parts of Jack's translation. Is anyone else willing to hazard a
translation? In B-Hebrew transliteration (and * marks a word boundary),
the inscription appears to read,

XZYHW * M...
HDH W)($ * )T * ...
H * K)$R * NML)H * ND 
BT * LB )$ * B)RC * WBMD 
BR * WBKL * (RY * YHDH * L 
TT * KSP * HQD$M LRB * 
LQNT * )BN * MXCB * WBR 
$M * WNX$T * )DM L($T * 
BML)KH * B)MNH * W)($ 
)T * BDQ * HBYT * WHQRT S 
BB * W)T * HYC( * WH$BK 
M * WHLWLM * WHGR(T * WH 
DLTT * WHYH * HYM * HZH 
L(DT * KY TCLX * HML)KH 
YCW * YHWH * )T * (MW * BBRKH

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies, 
Biblical Field (Early Judaism major)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada
pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca
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> list participants may wish to look at another transcription 
> of the jehoash
> tablet-  this one by jack kilmon.  jack has given us the 
> moabite alphabetic transcription; a hebrew square text 
> transcription, and an english translation.
> 
> view it at
> 
http://web.infoave.net/~jwest/joashtrans.jpg