(Facebook) This is the oldest known inscription of the Name Yahweh and not in Hebrew. The Soleb Inscription comes from the Egyptian temple of Soleb in what is now Sudan and dates to the 14th century BC. It was commissioned under Pharaoh Amenhotep III and is preserved today in major museums, including the British Museum, with fragments studied and cataloged by Egyptologists for decades.
This is not a biblical manuscript and not a later religious tradition. It is Egyptian archaeology. The inscrip... more(Facebook) This is the oldest known inscription of the Name Yahweh and not in Hebrew. The Soleb Inscription comes from the Egyptian temple of Soleb in what is now Sudan and dates to the 14th century BC. It was commissioned under Pharaoh Amenhotep III and is preserved today in major museums, including the British Museum, with fragments studied and cataloged by Egyptologists for decades.
This is not a biblical manuscript and not a later religious tradition. It is Egyptian archaeology. The inscription records a people group called the traveling nomads, associated with the Name Yahweh, written centuries before later substitutions, titles, or pronunciation debates ever existed. Egypt had no reason to invent or theologize the Name; they were simply recording what they knew historically.
That’s why this matters. The Soleb Inscription confirms Yahweh as a real Name in ancient history, not a guess, not a title, and not a late invention. You don’t need to know Hebrew to understand this. You just need to follow the evidence. Archaeology, history, and Scripture all point to the same conclusion.
This single inscription alone dismantles the claims that the Name is unknowable, unpronounceable, or made up later. It stands as independent, non-biblical confirmation that Yahweh was known, spoken, and recorded in the ancient world.
Truth doesn’t fear examination.
SGT Fr. Nicolas Giroux
Priory of St. Michael the Archangel
Fides et Veritas
