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[peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Dear Lloyd,

I'm sorry your data on psalms has generated little interest. But here 
is a subject which has generated interest, even heat. Wondell/Joseph 
seems to have quoted your book as a source for Sumerian and/or 
Akkadian background for the name YHWH. Can you (or other list members) 
comment on this, or for that matter on what Albright, Layton etc may 
have said on this? I do not have their works available here. Is there 
any evidence that the name YHWH was borrowed from any other language 
rather than being Hebrew or proto-Hebrew?

Peter Kirk

PS Thank you for your clear defence of for the pre-exilic dating of 
much of the Hebrew Bible.


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Subject: Re[7]: YHWH vs. Yahweh
Author:  gs02wmr AT panther.Gsu.EDU at internet 
Date:    01/05/1999 10:05


On Sat, 1 May 1999, yahua'sef wrote:
> > Do you know of any linguistic evidence, rather than esoteric
> > speculation, for a Sumerian or even Akkadian (Mesopotamian Semitic) 
> > background for any of these names?

Ah Found it!

Try these:

1.  Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan : An Historical Analysis of Two 
Contrasting Faiths. Albright, William. 1990. ISBN: 0931464013

(This book really gets into the Aramaic language and recalls several 
Poetic stylings of early Hebrew writings and draws comparisons back to 
ancient Sumeria.

2. El and Yahweh: The Early History and Formative Traditions of Ancient 
Israel. Lloyd M. Barre. 1997. ISBN: 1581128959

3. Archaic Features of Canaanite Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible 
(Harvard Semitic Monographs, No 47). Scott C. Layton. 1990.  ISBN: 
1555405134

4. The pre-hellenistic israelite anthroponymy and prosopography. Ran 
Zadok.

5. Studies in third millennium Sumerian and Akkadian personal names : the 
designation and conception of a personal god. Robert A. Di Vito.



Shalom.

Wondell M. Rachman


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