Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>]

Dear Kieron,

The word PIPI is probably a "graphic" transcription, so to speak.  In square 
Aramaic script the tetragram may resemble the the Greek letters pipi.  It is 
interesting that in the marigin of Syriac manuscripts of the  Syro-Hexapla we 
find PIPI and HEHE (and occasionally YHWH) in Syrian letters.  This could 
suggest that som Greek manuscripts used as Vorlage had tetragrams in Aramaic 
script (PIPI) and others had tetragrams in Old Hebrew script (HEHE).

I do not have the texts of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion where I am at 
present, but I remember that Theodotion translated EHYE with Greek future.


Best regards

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo
  ----- 
  Original Message ----- 
  From: kieron cronin 
  To: Rolf Furuli 
  Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 6:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Questions about YHWH (long)


  Would you mind me asking you what does PIPI mean in relation to 
Aquila/Theodotian/Symmachus rendering of the Tetragrammaton? 

  While you're at it, can you tell me how they translated the 
ehyeh-asher-ehyeh and ehyeh of Ex.3:14a and Ex.3:14b respectively?

  Thanks