Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yohanan bin-Dawidh <yohanan.bin.dawidh AT gmail.com>]

 Shalom Lloyd;

Even if these inscriptions throughout the Negev mention Yohowah, and are
considered to not be inscriptions from the offspring of Ya'aqov bin-Yits*h*aq
bin-'Avraham, this does not prove that Yohowah was not the deity of the
offspring of Yisra'el, nor does it disprove the Torah, nor does it prove
that the writer(s) of the Torah borrowed from other peoples to create their
text. You forget one logical consideration is that many of these people
living within the Negev had common ancestors, which the Torah itself makes
claims to, and if they had common ancestors, it is likely they had similar
cultural ideological views, and even likely they all knew of Yohowah, and
worshipped him.

Yo*h*anan bin-Dawidh

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:42 PM, LM Barre <l_barre AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> With a collection of over one hundred and thirty inscriptions this study
> has opened a small window to the early (pre-Exile) history of Canaanite
> peoples of the Negev. And since twenty-five percent of the inscriptions
> contain names of the God of Israel (Yah, El/Yah, Yahu, and Yahh) it seems
> fair to say that these Canaanite speakers had a covenant relationship with
> Yahweh.
>
> http://net.lib.byu.edu/imaging/negev/Origins.html
>
> These inscriptions reach back to 1200 BCE.
>
> Lloyd Barré
> http://freewebs.com/lmbarre
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