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  • From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
  • To: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:12:34 +0300

Perhaps there is none, indeed, but a mere connection of Jove with iouis is
no proof. Loan words are commonly adapted to have meaning in the target
language.

Vadim Cherny

> There is no etymological relationship between the Latin "Jove" (from iovis
> pater...pronounced yawis) and the much older SemiticYHWH..
>
> Jack Kilmon





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