…But scholars see the name of King David’s scribe at Jerusalem, $RYH at II Samuel 8: 17, as being a west Semitic name ending with -YH that honors YHWH. Yet scholars generally agree that the name )WRYH [misleadingly transliterated by KJV as “Uriah”] at II Samuel 11: 3 is not a west Semitic name ending in -YH that honors YHWH. $RYH and )WRYH lived at the same place in the same time. Shouldn’t their names be conceptualized as follows? $R -Y [-H]; )W-R -Y [-H]. You don’t think the fathers of $RYH and )WRYH had honored YHWH, do you?
… King David inherited that scribe when he took Jerusalem;
King David never had a scribe before he got to Jerusalem, as far as we can tell from the Biblical testimony;
… But King David’s scribe, by sharp contrast, was not a Hebrew at birth
… In my opinion, …
…Jim StinehartEvanston, Illinois
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