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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Jerusalem - spelling, in historical perspective
  • Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:06:55 -0800

Uri:

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

>
>
> 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.

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




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