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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: walter mattfeld <mattfeld12 AT charter.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Illustration of a "winged" Yahweh-Elohim (Iron Age II)
  • Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:58:07 +0100

On 22/08/2005 10:57, walter mattfeld wrote:

A possible (?) image of a "winged" Yahweh-Elohim (Iron Age II) is available. cf.
the below url if interested:

http://www.bibleorigins.net/WingedYahwehElohim.html


This iconography largely related to worship of El by Canaanites, repeatedly condemned in the Tanakh as idolaters. Any link to YHWH or Elohim is highly speculative. I note the following which you quote concerning the only image with any link to YHWH:

the Hebrew inscription seems to have been added later on and is not clearly distinguishable, reading a highly doubtful yh[y]hw[s]lm (Uehlinger, 1993:275). Furthermore, the seal is unique in its iconography and thus should be used cautiously for far-reaching conclusions


As for Yehimilk of Byblos, what is the actual spelling of his name? The inscriptions of Yehimilk and Shiftibaal at http://www.proel.org/alfabetos/feniarca.html (about half way down) give a clear spelling yod-het-mem-lamed-kaf, and the inscription of Elibaal confirms a second letter het. If this is true, the second letter het completely rules out any link to YHWH, and instead indicates a probable meaning of "Long live the king!", an appropriate throne name. Walter, I am surprised at you for making such an elementary mistake.

Yehawmilk is it seems a separate and much later character, of the 5th-4th centuries BCE. See http://www.bu.edu/anep/ANET.html for an English translation of the text of the relevant stela, but unfortunately not giving the Phoenician spelling. The only picture of this stela which I can find is at your own site, Walter, http://www.bibleorigins.net/asherimpillardjed.html, but unfortunately you have cut off the actual inscription part. Are you able to tell us the actual Phoenician spelling of this king's name?

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