Khirbet El-Qom
Does God have a consort?
Posted
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
by
Charlie Trimm
a. Following Naveh.
×ריהו השר כתבה
ברך ×ריהו ליהוה
× ×¦×¨×™ ול×שרתה הושע לה
ל×× ×™×”×•
Uriyahu the governor wrote it
May Uriyahu be blessed by Yahweh
My guardian and by his Asherah. Save him
(save) Uriyahu
b. Naveh (Graffiti) defines a graffiti as being very similar to a dedicatory inscription. The dedicatory inscription has two parts: one part mentioning the object or the vow and the second part calling on the god to bless the offerer or to hear their prayer. A graffiti, on the other hand, has only the second part, but basically performs the same function: calling on the god to bless the person. Naveh sees El-Qom as a graffiti because he translates it as Uriyahu calling on Yahweh (and his Asherah?) to save him. Since Uriyahu is calling on the god to bless him (which is the identifying characteristic of the graffiti), then El-Qom is a graffiti for Naveh.
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