Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ingalls, Alan" <aingalls AT bbc.edu>]

A New Testament colleague of mine was showing me a ms of Aquila in which the
Tetragrammaton is inserted in paleo-Hebrew characters in an otherwise Greek
text. The Tetragrammaton seems to be represented by yod-he-yod-he rather
than yod-he-waw-he. My colleague, Dr. Rod Decker, has posted some notes on
this temporarilly on his faculty web-page at
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/temp/temp.htm. He includes there images from
Metzger's book Manuscripts of the Greek Bible. Am I mis-reading the paleo?
Is this related to the practice of representing the Tetragrammaton in the
Targums and Yerushalmi (Aramaic!) as yod-yod? Any idea of where this
practice of representing the Tetragrammaton with yod-yod comes from? Any
help you can offer regarding this puzzle would be greatly appreciated. 

Alan Ingalls

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