Category Archives: Byblos

God’s Name Found outside the Bible on the Mesha Stele/Moabite Stone

The name that God gave himself — Yahweh (YHWH) — is found in the Hebrew Bible and also in other ancient documents.

Byblos Part III: Decrypting a Dead Language

In two earlier entries, I discussed software, theories and methods about the decrypting of an ancient language called Byblos (with Byblos being an ancient city just north of Israel): Part I: Chasing Byblos, Decrypting a Dead Language Part II: Encoding Byblos Signs The time gap between this post and those does not indicate inactivity on

Encoding Byblos Signs

Running the Byblos texts through software means encoding the inscriptions. Here are four lines of Text D:

Chasing Byblos – Decrypting a Dead Language

This series of articles is going to seem completely self-serving and I am afraid completely irrelevant. It may come off as self-serving in the sense that I will be using this space to report on my own ongoing research, and then irrelevant in the sense that casual readers could view this research as seemingly heady