Posted on 05/15/2023 7:25:35 PM PDT by aimhigh
An early Hebrew inscription from Mount Ebal near Nablus that was found on a folded lead tablet during an excavation in the 1980s recently underwent x-ray tomographic measurements to reveal hidden text.
Epigraphic analysis of the data revealed a formulaic curse written in a proto-alphabetic script likely dating to Late Bronze Age that predates any previously known Hebrew inscription in Israel by at least 200 years.
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Thanks aimhigh, nice twofer.
One of *those* topics.
1300 years bc. And it was a curse, I wonder what it related to?
Deuteronomy 27:21ff curses from Mount Ebal.
It translates into Hebrew. Dr. Doug Petrovich showed that proto siniatic and the proto cananite texts translate to Hebrew. The earliest texts appear to be from Mannasah about 400 years before Moses. What was attributed to the Phoenicians really came from the Hebrews.
No problem for you to find and read translation of them.
I heard that when translated it said “Don’t forget to drink your Ovaltine”.
“Galil said he believes that all 48 letters are clear on the scans and that the inscription dates to the end of the 13th century BCE, but the other authors believe it could be older.”
13th Century BC: first day of 1,300 BC to last day of 1,201
So “inscription dates to” around 1,210 to 1,201, “but the other authors believe it could be older.”
And I also wonder why did he didnt use the Hebrew JHWH instead of YWH.
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I thought prob that was it but without it being particularly connected to it wondered if it was like the Roman inscriptions they have found of curses addressed to particular individuals for personal grievances.
The letters pronounced yodh heth vav heth with appropriate vowel signage as a Hebrew word is rendered "Jehovah" in printed English, but properly pronounced "Yeh-hoe-vah" in English or German, not "Dzhyeh-hoe-vah."
The KJV/AV translators also put it in print as "LORD" or "GOD" (all upper case).
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/inscriptions/mt_ebal_inscription/
… As translated by the team, the tablet reads:
“Cursed, cursed, cursed—cursed by the God Yhw. You will die cursed. Cursed you will surely die. Cursed by Yhw—cursed, cursed, cursed.”…
Ancient Israelites spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew.
Ancient Israelites spoke Hebrew as an everyday language until the 3rd century BC when it was supplanted by Aramaic. Hebrew continued to be used in ceremonial and liturgical roles afterward.
I can see why this curse isn’t in the Bible. Sounds more like an angry spouse.
Was it a iPad or Android tablet?
Proof that we were there. Good all around.
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