More Evidence for Alma as a Semitic Name

ePub feed of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Abstract: Beginning with Hugh Nibley, several Latter-day Saint scholars have highlighted a deed found among the Bar Kokhba documents as evidence of the name Alma as a Jewish male name in antiquity. Here we highlight a second attestation of the same name used for a Jewish male from a slightly earlier period, as well as […]

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