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

From: Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH Derivation - a dead end
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 23:53:37 -0600

On Thursday 05 May 2005 00:09, Yigal Levin wrote:
> 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....

And a related question: does it really matter?

--
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
Reality is what refuses to go away when
you stop believing in it.

[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