Stephen, According to the latest edition of Even Shoshan Heb.-Heb. dictionary, the first Hebrew occurrence is in the Book of Yosippon, a chronicle of Jewish history to the time Titus. Written between eighth and tenth centuries CE.
In the HB the root may be recognized in the name ASA ( Aleph Samekh Aleph). Uri Hurwitz Uri, Can you (or anyone) give one example where "their name appears" so spelled earlier than modern times? Stephen _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
