Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  Stephen, According to the latest edition of Even Shoshan Heb.-Heb. 
dictionary, the first Hebrew occurrence is in the Book of Yosippon, a 
chronicle of Jewish history to the time Titus. Written between eighth and 
tenth centuries CE.

  In the HB the root may be recognized in the name  ASA ( Aleph Samekh Aleph).

   Uri Hurwitz




Uri, Can you (or anyone) give one example where "their name appears" so 
spelled earlier than modern times?

Stephen