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Phoenician drachm, 4th century BC, on exhibit in the British Museum. The coin shows seated , labelled either "YHW" ( Yahu ) or "YHD" (Judea), see below. Stephen Herbert Langdon, Mythology of All Races - Semitic. Boston. Archaeological Institute of America. Marshall Jones Company (1931):
But Sukenik (1934) read the three letters on the (same?) coin not as yhw, but as yhd, i.e. "Yehud" or "Judah" (figure 8, facing page 543. "The Persian Period." Gosta W. Ahlstrom. The History of Ancient Palestine. Minneapolis. Fortress Press. 1993, 1994). The arrangement of the deity sitting on a winged wheel has been compared to Ezekiel's vision of Yahweh's throne as flying about the heavens on four wheels accompanying Cherubim (Ez 1:16-21; 10:2-19 and Dan 7:9). Ahlstrom ( "The Persian Period." Gosta W. Ahlstrom. The History of Ancient Palestine. Minneapolis. Fortress Press. 1993) notes the controversy over the inscription being read yhw vs. yhd:
The yhd reading appears to be accepted now: "E. L. Sukenik's reading of yhd has been widely accepted: see his 'Paralipomena Palaestinensia', Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society. Volume 14 (1934), pp. 178-84. S. A. Cook objected to it asking why there would be a picture of a bearded man on a winged wheel without a corresponding name ('Ahlstrom cites: 'The Jahu Coin'. in the journal Zeitschrift für die alttestementliche Wissenschaft. Volume 56 [1938]. pp. 268-71) In either case, the item is a Hebrew (Jewish) coin of the Persian period, showing a deity sitting on a throne with wheeled wings. Gitler and Lemaire (2003) understand the deity on the winged wheel might be Yahweh:
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Date | circa 400 BC; 1914 (photograph); |
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The photograph is from Arthur B. Cook (1914). immediate source of jpeg: screen shot from public domain video "Is Heaven the Sky?" (director: Reginald Vaughn Finley, Sr.) URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6305348613255272309&hl=en better images of the same coin can be found at http://www.bibleorigins.net/YahwehWheelCoin.html Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by SreeBot . |
Author | Eickenberg at en.wikipedia |
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