Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Patrina,

Thanks for the link. It does seem to rule out my suggestion.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard

> Hezekiah's seals were featured in Biblical Archaeology Review
> Volume 28, Number 4, July/August 2002, Pp 42-51, 60 and can be found in
> a web article at:
>
> http://rd.archaeological-center.com/articles/13.shtml
>
> There are several pics of the seals there, all showing a spelling of
> YHDH in paleo-hebrew between the wingtips of the scarab. If the verbal
> root originally included a waw as suggested by HH, it would seem strange
> to have dropped out during the time of Hezekiah extra-biblically, or to
> have been spelled with a mater in the formal anals of his reign (and
> priestly records such as the biblical texts) but not on official seals?
>
> I've been thinking about the spelling issue for quite a while, because
> it impacts on dating of all the texts containing the word YHWDH.