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  • From: "Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>
  • To: "George Athas" <gathas AT goconnect.net>
  • Cc: "Hebrew List" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: YHWH
  • Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 13:32:12 -0400


Dear George,
It all depends on which Hebrew Bible you are using. The Leningrad codex
omits the holem, but other texts include it, e.g. Complutensian Polyglot,
Second Rabbinic Bible of Jacob Ben Chayyim, Codex 17 of the second
Firkowitsch collection, etc.
Lee R. Martin


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Athas" <gathas AT goconnect.net>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: YHWH


> | An interesting thing is the holem point in the qere-writing of YHWH.
> | Sometimes there is an holem point, sometimes not. We have the same
> | phenomenon when YHWH is written as qere "Elohim" (In combination with
> | another Adonay). Sometimes holem sometimes not. Does it mean anything ot
is
> | it just to facilitate the writing?
>
> I thought the holem vowel was always left out of the tetragrammaton. Do
you have a
> reference for an occasion where it does appear?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> GEORGE ATHAS
> (Sydney, Australia)
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  • YHWH, Matthew R. Miller, 04/30/2001
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: YHWH, Trevor Peterson, 05/01/2001
    • Re: YHWH, Eric Krasner, 05/01/2001
    • Re: YHWH, Ben Crick, 05/01/2001
    • Re: YHWH, Stig Norin, 05/02/2001
    • Re: YHWH, George Athas, 05/02/2001
    • RE: YHWH, Peter Kirk, 05/02/2001
    • Re: YHWH, Lee R. Martin, 05/02/2001

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