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Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?

From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
To: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>, "David P Donnelly" <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:51:06 +0300

Besides YHWH - Jove, there is Zvaoth - Zeus parallel. Too much for a
coincidence. Since YHWH and Zvaoth are meaningful in Hebrew, the direction
of borrowing is certain.

Vadim Cherny

> Could the Latin Jupiter/Jove be derived from the name YHWH? Possibly.
> Early Rome was certainly strongly influenced by Phoenicians, who may
> have included some worshippers of YHWH, cf. the probably Phoenician
> sailors in the book of Jonah, who, while polytheists, seem to have
> recognised YHWH as the creator God and prayed to him to save them (Jonah
> 1:9-10,14).

[b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, David P Donnelly, 07/23/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, Peter Kirk, 07/23/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, Vadim Cherny, 07/24/2005
    - Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, John W. Leys., 07/24/2005
      - Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, Vadim Cherny, 07/24/2005
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, John W. Leys., 07/24/2005
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, Yitzhak Sapir, 07/24/2005
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, Vadim Cherny, 07/24/2005
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, Vadim Cherny, 07/24/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, Jack Kilmon, 07/23/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, Vadim Cherny, 07/24/2005
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, David P Donnelly, 07/23/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?, Peter Kirk, 07/24/2005