Comments on: Qeiyafa Inscription http://benabuya.com/2010/01/10/qeiyafa-inscription/ looking for alternative explanations Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:43:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: sh http://benabuya.com/2010/01/10/qeiyafa-inscription/#comment-8163 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:56:39 +0000 http://benabuya.com/?p=803#comment-8163 by the way a so prof. galil on television now and he read נקמו instead of שקמו which seem better reading.

]]> By: sh http://benabuya.com/2010/01/10/qeiyafa-inscription/#comment-8162 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:04:57 +0000 http://benabuya.com/?p=803#comment-8162 in the hebrew press the suggested reading was (i added the missing Mater lectionis in Parenthesis) :
אל תעש(ו) …ועבד(ו) את [ה']
שפט(ו) עבד ואלמנ(ה) שפט(ו) ית(ו)
וגר ר(י)ב(ו) ע(ו)לל ר(י)ב(ו) דל ו
אלמנ(ה) שקמ(ו) ביד מלכ
אבי(ו)ן ועבד -שכ(ו), גר – תמ[כ(ו)]

I can fit this reading with the sketch of the inscription. However from the reading of some word in the two final lines seem a bit problematic. E.g. its intersting how Prof. galil explains שקמ which is not biblical.

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