Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>]

Was it written in the form of YHWH , or actually written as "Yahweh" , and by 
the 9th century , are you bc'ing , or 9th century from Adam.

doug belot
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: LM Barre 
  To: Doug Belot ; b-Hebrew 
  Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 8:46 AM
  Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] More Yahweh outside the Bible


        The 9th century.  The Mesha Stele

        The Mesha Stele (popularized in the 19th century as the "Moabite 
Stone") is a black basalt stone, bearing an inscription by the 9th century BC 
Moabite King Mesha, discovered in 1868 at Dhiban (biblical "Dibon," capital 
of Moab) now in Jordan. The Stele is notable because it is thought to be the 
earliest known reference to the sacred Hebrew name of God - YHWH. It also 
notable as the most extensive inscription ever recovered that refers to 
ancient Israel, and French scholar André Lemaire reported that line 31 of the 
Stele bears the phrase "the house of David" (in Biblical Archaeology Review 
[May/June 1994], pp. 30-37).[1]
        The inscription of 34 lines is written in the Moabite language. It 
was set up by Mesha, about 850 BC, as a record and memorial of his victories 
in his revolt against the Kingdom of Israel during the reign of king Ahaziah 
after the death of Israel's king Ahab.
        The stone is 124 cm high and 71 cm wide and deep, and rounded at the 
top. It was discovered at the ancient Dibon now Dhiban, Jordan, in August 
1868, by Rev. F. A. Klein, a German missionary in Jerusalem. "The Arabs of 
the neighborhood, dreading the loss of such a talisman, broke the stone into 
pieces; but a squeeze (or papier-mâché impression) had already been obtained 
by Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, and most of the fragments were recovered 
and pieced together by him".[8] The squeeze (which has never been published) 
and the reassembled stele (which has been published in many books and 
encyclopedias) are now in the Louvre Museum.


        Lloyd Barré




        --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Doug Belot <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au> wrote:

          From: Doug Belot <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>
          Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] More Yahweh outside the Bible
          To: l_barre AT yahoo.com
          Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 11:59 PM


WHEN WAS THIS WRITTEN .


----- Original Message ----- From: "LM Barre"
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Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 7:46 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] More Yahweh outside the Bible


Another instance of Yahweh outside the Bible, as if that mattered, is the 
Mesha
inscription:

"And I took from there the ['r']ly of Yahweh and I dragged them
before Chemosh."

Lloyd Barré





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