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  • From: Bill Rea <cctr114 AT cantsl.canterbury.ac.nz>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Pronunciation of WAW
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:11:31 +1300 (NZDT)


Shoshanna wrote:-

> Please keep in mind that no one knows how to pronounce that name, and no one
> was allowed to pronounce that name except for one person, in one place, once
> a year.

It is my impression from the poetry sections of the Hebrew scriptures that
YHWH would be pronounced by the reader when read. I thought the prohibition
on saying the name came from a much later time than, for example, the
prophet Jeremiah.


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