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  • From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: re: I AM
  • Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:42:06 -0400


Tony Prete quoted Niccacci as saying, in part: "This is done by a word-play
on God's personal Name based on verb *hayĆ¢*."

Is Exod 3 a word-play on the tetragrammaton, or vice versa? That is, is
the holy Name based on the verb *hayah*, or does the Name stand on its own
without traceable etymology but one can make a pun on it using the verb
*hayah*?


It stands on its own.

No one except the high priest even knew how to pronounce it

And he placed himself in great danger by pronouncing it even the one single time per year that he was allowed, so that they had to tie a string around him, in case he died and had to be pulled out

Shoshanna





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