Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>]

This is an ingenious explanation, but what evidence do you have for this one
rather than the more obvious one that YHWH was pronounced something like
IAW? By the way, I presume that the W here is an omega not a W sound. But
even with the omega this could be consistent with both common suggestions,
Yahwe and Yehowa.

Peter Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo M. Acuna [mailto:eacuna AT mail.giga.com]
Sent: 15 February 2001 16:53
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton


4QLXXLevb translates YHWH as IAW, which is a greek phonetic transcription
for an inverse (i.e., magic) substitution of the (incomplete) vowels of
ADONAI : IANODA.

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