Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>]

Peter wrote:

> Only HYH is listed as using I, and this 
> could be a 
> deliberate change to avoid saying something too similar to the divine 
> name;

This is a real possibility. Jewish Standard Literary Aramaic seems to do
something very similar, when it uses lhwh for the 3ms impf. (The
l-preformative shows up in other Aramaic dialects, but here it is not a
regular pattern.)

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics