Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Doug,

The Mesha (or Moabite) stone (or stele) was written in the 9th century BCE. 
And in the Western Semitic (including Hebrew and Moabite) orthography 
(that's "spelling") of the time, vowels were not written at all. So it was 
written YHWH. How it was vocalized is anyone's guess.

Yigal Levin

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From: "Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>
To: <l_barre AT yahoo.com>; "b-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] More Yahweh outside the Bible


> 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
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>  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
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>        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
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>        --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Doug Belot <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au> wrote:
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>          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 .
>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 7:46 AM
> Subject: [b-hebrew] More Yahweh outside the Bible
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>
> 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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