Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Good point!
And YHWH in the Mesha stele!
Back to the drawing board.
liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan D. Safren [mailto:yon_saf AT bezeqint.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 4:16 AM
> To: Liz Fried; Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re: The Divine Name YHW
> 
> 
> Dear Liz,
> So how do YHWH Shomron and YHWH Teman fit into your theory?
> Jonathan D. Safren
> Chairman
> Dept. of Biblical Studies
> Beit Berl College
> 44905 Israel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
> To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 2:50 AM
> Subject: RE: The Divine Name YHW
> 
> 
> > The name YHW is the same name as YHWH, and refers to the same
> > god. To my way of thinking, it suggests that the H at the end of YHWH
> > is a matres lexiones (a vowel). It also suggests that the name was
> > pronounced Yahu, as in Eliyahu, etc. Some have suggested that
> > the Jews in Elephantine were from the North and that YHW was the
> > northern spelling, while the bible was written by Judaeans who used
> > the southern spelling. I think it is more easily explained by assuming
> > that the bible was written later and added the H as a vowel.
> > Liz Fried
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Fernando Arias [mailto:fernando.arias AT lycos.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 8:29 PM
> > > To: Biblical Hebrew
> > > Subject: The Divine Name YHW
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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