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Omiting the holem in YHWH

From: "George Athas" <gathas AT goconnect.net>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Omiting the holem in YHWH
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 11:55:18 +1000

| 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
|

Is there any particular reason why the Leningrad Codex omits the holem? Is it
perhaps a
scribal convention not to put anything above God?

Best regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
(Sydney, Australia)
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Omiting the holem in YHWH, George Athas, 05/04/2001