Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David P Donnelly <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>]

Martin Arhelger writes:

>>>
It has been generally accepted (and I think rightly so) that the original
spelling of YHWH has been YaHWe. 
>>>

Lately the name "Yahwe" or "Yahweh" is being critiqued on various
Internet sites and on various Discussion Boards.

One reason is that more people are becoming aware that there are three
different Greek spellings of the Tetragrammaton  found in the various
editions of  Clement of Alexandria's Greek Stromata Book V. Chapter 6:34.

The question arises did Clement say that the Tetragrammaton was
pronounced Iaou or Iaoue or Iaouai?

"Iaoue" can be transliterated into English as "Yahweh"
"Iaou" cannot.

Does anyone know the age of the oldest Greek manuscript of Stromata Book
V. Chapter 6:34 that has the Greek spelling "Iaoue" in it?

Dave Donnelly
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On Sat 16 Jul 2005 (00:03:08), christopher.heard AT pepperdine.edu wrote:
> However, what remains   unexplained (Karl considers it only a minor
> variation, and that may  
> be all it is) is the reason why five such references read "behold  
> them written" and all other such instances of the formula read "are  
> they not written?" It's not the phenomenon of referencing other books  
> that has piqued my curiosity; it is the verbal variance in the  
> quotation in only these few cases.

 Dear Christopher,

 Sorry if I was merely repeating the obvious. To address your question,
 ISTM that what we have here is a "Litotes". Instead of stating "They are
 written in the books...", for stylistic variation he asks a rhetorical
 question "Are they not written... ?". This is a question expecting a
 negative reply; "No; they are indeed written...". We can't do this very
 well in English: the Germans negate a negative with "Doch...", and the
 French with "Si...".

 I'm a traditionalist when it comes to authorship (penmanship) and date.
 However, that is not germane to B-Hebrew.

 Shalom
 Ben
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