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  • From: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] yhwh pronunciation
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:34:09 +0000

On 7/19/05, Yigal Levin wrote:
> Yes John, you are correct. From the epigraphic evidence that we have
> (ostraca, bullae, burial inscriptions etc.), it seems like the form YH (Yah)
> was common in pre-exilic Judah, YW (Yoh, or maybe Yaw) in northern Israel,
> and YHW (Yahu) in the post-exilic period. The Bible, which, even it it does
> preserve ancient material, was edited by post-exilic Judeans, has all three
> and is not consistant, even giving variant spellings of the same name:
> Yehonatan/Yonatan, Yoram/Yehoram, Eliyahu/Eliyah etc.
>
> Yigal

What about the name of Hezekiah as preserved in the Sennacherib prism? See
for example: http://fontes.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/king_hezekiah.htm#1e

Yitzhak Sapir




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