Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> "I am not sure why someone thinks that "yhwh" is Aramaic.
> It could just as well be Hebrew. I understand (based on
> memory of past discussions here) that neither "hwh" nor
> "yhwh" are attested or known prior to the 1st millenium BCE."
One can find HWH as the verb 'to be' in an Aramaic
inscription in a ninth/eigth BCE century Aramaic inscription. Check
it in the KIA (remember, the editorial language is German) under
Aramaic Inscriptions; whereas in the Hebrew inscriptions the verb
is HYH.
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