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  • From: "Eduardo M. Acuna" <eacuna AT mail.giga.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: RE: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton
  • Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:41:53 -0500


>
> 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?
>
The obvious evidence is YHWDH´s pronunciation.
>
> 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.
>
In IAW it is the transliteration, in IAO it is the pronunciation. The same
is valid for IAWE (transliteration) and IAVE (pronunciation).
>
>> 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.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
Eduardo.




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