[b-hebrew] YHWH
Uri Hurwitz
uhurwitz at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 26 10:05:00 EST 2007
Yigal Levin wrote in part:
"....2. In my oppinion, 'EHYEH ASHER 'EHYEH is a pun, not an etymology.
Yigal Levin "
Agreed; and to that the following may be added --
By the time this interpretation of the divine name was given, its original
meaning had been forgotten. That the interpretation is later than the name
can be derived from the spelling of the verb: HYH in standard Hebrew vs. the
Aramaic HWH. This could point to the traditional Northern origin of the
ancestors who brought the name with them to the WS Canaanite/Hebrew
environment.
Uri Hurwitz
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