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  • From: "John W. Leys." <eliyahu5733 AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:52:55 -0400

Vadim Cherny wrote:

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.

Are you implying that "Zeus" isn't meaningful? My Greek and Latin are a
bit rusty, but isn't it commonly held that Ζευζ (Zeus) is related to the
Latin 'deus' and that both likely come from a common Indo-European root.
And besides a similar--not identical--initial consonant sound, which is
made to look more similar than it is by the choice of transliterating
tsade as 'zv,' I don't see much of a similarity between 'tsvoath' and
'Zeus.'

Am I missing something?

--
Shalom
John W. Leys
Graduate School, Jewish Theological Seminary (Student)

http://eliyahu5733.blogspot.com/

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