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Source:Roper:Right on Target: Boomerang Hits and the Book of Mormon:FairMormon Conference 2001:Alma ben Yehuda and authentic Hebrew name
"Alma ben Yehuda" is an authentic Hebrew name
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"Alma ben Yehuda" is an authentic Hebrew name
Matthew Roper,
As can be seen, critics have had a lot of fun with the name Alma, however, in the 1960s Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin discovered a land deed near the Dead Sea dating to the early second century A.D. and rendered the name of a Jew mentioned therein as “Alma ben Yehuda” showing for the first time in modern history that the name Alma was an authentic Hebrew male name. Additional research in Ebla, in what is modern Syria, has also turned up this name showing that it goes back to nearly 2200 B.C. [1]
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- ↑ Matthew Roper, "Right on Target: Boomerang Hits and the Book of Mormon," Proceedings of the 2001 FAIR Conference (August 2001).