Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Fernando Arias" <fernando.arias AT lycos.com>]

Dear members,
The Divine Name YHW written in the Elephantine papyre is found nowhere in the 
Bible. I have some questions on it:
1)What is the origin of this Divine Name? 
2)Is it in any way related to the Divine Biblical Names? is in any way 
related to the Biblical tradition?
3)What is the meaning of this Name? 
4)How did this Name come to be used by the Elephantine jews?
5)Is there any evidence that this Name was transmitted in any form after the 
time of the Elephantine papyre? 
Thanks in advance for your answers,
Fernando. 


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Peter,
I agree that a discussion of prescriptive vs. descriptive grammar 
would be unproductive.  It was certainly not my intention to sound 
arrogant, and if I did, I honestly apologize.  At the same time, I do 
think it's possible to have what we might call "normative" grammar 
in a synchronic sense without it necessarily being prescriptive.  
This is the view I take wrt things like "decisioned."  

That said, the tree diagram you set forth looks fine to me.  It 
encapsulates the nature of 'ehyeh as a verb while showing its 
function as a noun/nominal.  Thanks for being gracious enough to 
set this out in such detail in spite of my error in tone.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"You just keep thinking, Butch.  That's what you're good at."