Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Gary Hedrick <garyh AT cjfm.org>]

"Anyone's guess" might be overstating it a bit, Yigal. Some guesses  
are better than others and the range of possibilities can probably be  
narrowed down to 3-4 good ones. Anyone interested can search the  
archives for previous discussions here on B-Hebrew.

Gary Hedrick
San Antonio, TX
USA

On Feb 7, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

> 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