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Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH Derivation - a dead end

From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH Derivation - a dead end
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 08:09:27 +0200

The one answer that I don't think anyone has brought up is the Bible's own:
")ehyeh a$er )ehyeh" - "I am that I am" (Ex. 3:14) seems to understand the
name YHWH as derived from the root HYH. But in any case, this whole thread
seems to be leading to a dead end. Do we know the etymology of most other
ANE dieties? Hadad/Adad? Chemosh? Anat? Ashur (yes, that's also a toponym,
but which came first?)? Marduk? Qws? I could go on and on....

Yigal

[b-hebrew] YHWH Derivation - Hosts, tladatsi, 05/05/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH Derivation - a dead end, Yigal Levin, 05/05/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH Derivation - a dead end, Dave Washburn, 05/05/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH Derivation - a dead end, Rolf Furuli, 05/05/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH Derivation - a dead end, C. Stirling Bartholomew, 05/05/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH Derivation - a dead end, Yitzhak Sapir, 05/05/2005