Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  In addition  to the well known attestation of YHWH, in Mesha, late ninth 
century, the name is fully written out in several pre-exilic inscriptions: in 
Kuntillat Ajrud, c. end ninth- early eighth century ;  in the Arad ostraca, 
e.g no. 18, late eighth century;  in the Lakhish letters, e.g. no. 2,  during 
the  the war   mentioned  in Jer. 34: 7, that is c.586 BCE. There are other 
pre-exilic examples.
 
  Uri

"B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com> wrote:


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?
> 
> 
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:35:53 -0500 "Harold R. Holmyard III"
<hholmyard AT ont.com> writes:
> Dear Peter,
> 
> >  But who are the others they are relying on? As for the 
> journalists, 
> >you must be joking to cite them as authorities.
> 
> HH: No, I'm not, because they have to get their facts straight. So 
> they have to go to reputable authorities in matters like this.
> 
>                                         Yours,
>                                         Harold Holmyard
> 
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george
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