Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - Re: [b-hebrew] yhwh pronunciation

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Bearpecs AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] yhwh pronunciation
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:12:15 EDT


In a message dated 7/24/2005 7:54:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
furuli AT online.no writes:

before you bathe. The Pharisees reply, "We complain of you Morning-bathers
because you mention the Name with a body which contains defilement."
If this was a typical dialogue between the two groups, and the Pharisees
originated around 100 B.C.E. it means that at the same time that the Qumran
people did not use the name, other groups did use it.


Be careful about using quotations from Talmud with regard to pronouncing
"the name" as relevant to the tetragrammaton. The rabbis generally use "the
name" to mean the name written as the tetragrammaton but pronounced Ad-nai.
When they want to refer to the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton as
written,
they use the term "the explicit name" (shem hameforash).






Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page