Writing in Seventh-Century BC Levant

August 8, 2012 By 2 Comments
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The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship is sponsoring a one-day conference on 31 August 2012, entitled “Writing in Seventh-Century BC Levant.”  (The Levant is, essentially, the area of modern-day Israel/Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.)
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I won’t be there, but not because of pique or a flair for dramatic gestures.  Instead, I’ll be headed that day to Turkey, where, somewhat curiously given recent events, I’ll be helping to lead a visit of Maxwell Institute donors to Istanbul/Constantinople, Ephesus, and Cappadocia.
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Cedar City, Utah.
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  • Raymond Takashi Swenson

    So for those of us not conversant in ancient script, what does the word in the illustration say?

    • danpeterson

      “Yahweh,” in archaic proto-Hebraic script.