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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH pronunciation
  • Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:23:02 +0100

On 01/08/2005 12:09, Read, James C wrote:

...

Peter! Can you run me through the long 'eh' reasoning again? I still haven't
quite got the grasp of it.


I rather think there are two bases for this:

1) The Greek attestations of the name, which mostly end in -E, or -AI which was pronounced like a long "e".

2) The hypothesis that the name is derived from a form of the verb HWH, which would typically end in -e(h).

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