Footnote 1 – Let’s be Serious About the Bat Creek Stone

The omission of the yod cannot be considered an orthographic option, as if it were an anachronistic “defective spelling,” reverting to practices in use over half a millennium earlier; after all, this “scribe,” when writing yeáhudim, indicated the u by waw (letter 6); he did not omit this mater lectionis. Therefore, he would not have failed to indicate the i by yod.