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In a message dated 2/13/2003 2:49:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
mattharris73 AT yahoo.com writes:

> When you wrote the following I was unsure of the meaning. YHWH cannot 
> substitute for YHWH can it? 
> What is the most common substitution for YHWH then, is it (DNY? Surely, if 
> there are substitions there must be one that is the most frequent.
> 
> Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:Rolf... You keep saying that 'el is 
> the most 
> common substitution for YHWH in the scrolls... There is no "most common" 
> substitution, and in reality 'el is in the minority. The most common 
> reading 
> for YHWH in the scrolls is, oddly enough, YHWH. 

Dave will, of course, need to speak for himself, but as I read this he was 
saying that in most cases there is NO substitution fir YHWH but that it 
appears in its own guise.

gfsomsel
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Matt,
Are you familiar with the word "facetious"?

On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:48, matt harris wrote:
> When you wrote the following I was unsure of the meaning. YHWH cannot
> substitute for YHWH can it? What is the most common substitution for YH=
WH
> then, is it (DNY? Surely, if there are substitions there must be one th=
at
> is the most frequent.
>
>  Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:Rolf... You keep saying that 'e=
l is
> the most common substitution for YHWH in the scrolls... There is no "mo=
st
> common" substitution, and in reality 'el is in the minority. The most
> common reading for YHWH in the scrolls is, oddly enough, YHWH.
> Dave Washburn
> http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
>
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