Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

I love it! Just to encourage you, as no one else seems to.

I can even accommodate Dan's point, the word play between )EHYEH and YHWH,
if we suggest that God didn't have a name before, but thought up the name
YHWH on the spot on the basis that "well, if you really want a name, you can
have any name you want, here's one off the top of my head which you can
use". Now this creates a problem with the use of the name YHWH in Genesis,
and your whole approach can be accused of excessive anthropomorphism of the
deity. But I think it could reasonably be argued that this would fit well
with the original genre of this exchange and the theology of its author, cf.
the very anthropomorphic YHWH of Genesis 3:8-13 and 18:16-33.

Peter Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: Stoney Breyer [mailto:stoney AT touchwood.net]
Sent: 18 May 2001 20:46
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: _)aSHER_ in Ex. 3:14 (was "I AM")

<snip>

I have not made myself clear.  Let me put it in script form, transforming
the wayyo'mers into speech headings and adding interpretive directions to
the actors in parentheses:

MOSES:  (interrupting again) ... and they say to me "What's his name?" --
what do I tell them?

DEITY:          (exploding)  I'll be who I'll be!  (sarcastic) Tell the
sons of Israel I'll be sent you!  (calming down)  Tell the sons of Israel
that YHWH, god of their fathers ... sent you; (laboring his point to make
sure there's no misunderstanding) *this* is my name, *this* my memorial age
after age.



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