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  • From: Awohili AT aol.com
  • To: K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH pronunciation
  • Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:48:47 EDT


I'm not so sure. Whereas Hebrew as a spoken language of daily intercourse
ended, it remained the language of religion. And YHWH is the most religious
of words. The decline in pronouncing YHWH by some segments of Judaism is
generally traced to 100 BCE - 100 CE, or thereabouts.

"Those who say don't know; those who know don't say." That phrase comes to
mind, though I am sure it was not originally discussing the Tetragram.

Solomon Landers

In a message dated 08/02/2005 10:34:41 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk writes:

The point was that a hebrew up to the 7th century could quite easily have
pronounced the word by merely viewing the consanantal order.
As the language died out no-one with that ability remains.









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