Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Uri:

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com> wrote:

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>
>       Jerusalem is attested in a number of early extra-
> biblical sources:
>
>       the well known Egyptian  execration texts, 19th-18th
>  centuries BCE;
>
>       the famous El-Amarna tablets in fourteenth century;
>
>       the  boasting of Sennacherib about his  siege of
>  Jerusalem in 701 BCE.
>
>     In none of the above is there a Yud between the Lamed
>  and Mem.
>
>     Corresoponding with the above, and significant, is the
>  fact that  Jerusalem is spelled in the Hebrew bible in
>  overwhelming number of cases without a Yud between the
>  Lamed and the Mem.
>

That Jerusalem is spelled without a yod in 622 verses, while with a yod in
only five, opens the possibility that the inclusion of a yod are copyist
errors. One way to test that question is to look at the DSS for those five
verses: Jeremiah 26:18, Esther 2:6, 1 Chronicles 3:5, 2 Chronicles 25:1,
32:9.

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>  Uri Hurwitz                           Great Neck, NY
>
> Karl W. Randolph.