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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] More Yahweh outside the Bible
  • Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:59:53 +0200

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

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>
To: <l_barre AT yahoo.com>; "b-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 2:44 AM
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
----- 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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