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RE: [b-hebrew] YHWH: Consonants or Vowels?

From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
To: "'David P Donnelly'" <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] YHWH: Consonants or Vowels?
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:15:38 -0400

> Wars of the Jews, Book 5, chapter 5
> in which was engraven the sacred name [of God];
> it consists of four vowels.

Thackeray notes in the standard Loeb translation of JW 5.235,

Why Josephus speaks of "four VOWELS" is uncertain. The first and third
letters are probably "by nature vowels" (=i and u), though by usage
consonants (Gesenius, Heb. Grammar, ed. Cowley, pp. 26, 45). He is perhaps
thinking of a GREEK form (IAUE).

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew Poetry)
Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
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[b-hebrew] YHWH: Consonants or Vowels?, David P Donnelly, 09/13/2003
- RE: [b-hebrew] YHWH: Consonants or Vowels?, Ken Penner, 09/15/2003
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- Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH: Consonants or Vowels?, David P Donnelly, 09/13/2003