Biblical Hebrew Forum

["B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>]

Hi Peter,

The Mesha stele, in line 18, has the Tetragrammaton (all four letters). 
 Did Rolf respond to your request below?  I didn't see a response.

Shalom,
Bryan Rocine

Peter Kirk wrote:

> Now this is interesting. Do you have evidence for the Tetragrammaton 
> form, YHWH including a final he, from earlier than the Elephantine 
> letters, so pre-exilic? What evidence? And does it actuall predate the 
> first recorded use of matres lectionis?