Tag: death

Photo Study IV

[Ebal’s Plea, twenty of thirty-two]

We look now at a new word and two solo letters relevant to a critic’s arguments.

Here I introduce them somewhat superficially. Later, I delve deeper when I discuss that scholar’s views.

Our new word is “TMT”, meaning “You will die!”

Galil depicts it in Figure 7 as #’s: 18, 19, and 20.

The phonetic spelling is “Taw”, “Mem”, “Taw.”

Here is how they look:

• “Taw” looks like an “X” or a cross and with small tick marks it resembles crossed hockey sticks or swords.; and
• “Mem” looks like our “M”, wavy lines, or rolling waves.

To see photos and drawings of each click:

• #18: Table 9 (1 a and b);
• #19: Table 7 (1 a and b) plus Table 10, photo #7; and
• #20: Table 9 (2 a and b).

This concludes our proto-alphabetic vocabulary survey.

Our lexicon now includes YHW, ARUR, and TMT, three easy words–three heavy notions.

I now turn to our survey’s two solo letters. For simplicity these I consider independent from the words they help form.

The first I call “Lovely Aleph”. See it as Figure 7’s #21 and as Table 2’s (3a & b).

All I will say currently is, “What a beauty!”.

The second letter I call “Dancing He” because it appears to exude rhythmic motion on the lower tablet.

View it as Figure 7’s #3 and in Table 3 (4a & b).

See a remarkable negative of it in Table 10, #2.

We can now declare a wrap on our initial alphabet and word canvas.

Consider our script count comprises only seven unique letters–“Aleph”, “He”, “Mem”, “Resh”, “Taw”, “Waw”, and “Yod”.

At first tackling ancient inscriptions of thirty-five hundred years ago possibly intimidated. In retrospect you likely see them as relatively straight forward.

As an aside, consider that in short order first graders learn all 26 letters of our script. Plus they quickly master a corral of words from their readers. What a wonder!

Nevertheless, rather than taxing, I trust that you found our exercise enlightening and maybe fun.

But we are not yet done. We still must review the substance of voices opposing Stripling’s claims.

This too I will attempt to keep sufferable, if not entertaining.

Let us get started!

Next post: “A Refutation?”