Category:Isabel

The name "Isabel" in the Book of Mormon

Parent page: Book of Mormon Names

"the spelling Yzbl is now attested on a seal in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem"

Tvedtnes, Gee and Roper:

Isabel was a harlot in the land of Siron, on the border between the Lamanites and the Zoramites (see Alma 39:3). LDS scholars have generally assumed that the name is identical to that of the Old Testament Jezebel, the Hebrew form of which was 'ÃŽzebel, and this is probably correct. But the spelling Yzbl is now attested on a seal in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem that is thought to be Phoenician in origin. [1]

Notes

  1. John A. Tvedtnes, John Gee, Matthew Roper, "Book of Mormon Names Attested in Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9/1 (2000): 40–51.