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Re: [b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?

From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
To: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:02:54 +0300

I put "I am" as a standard translation. In my opinion, it is close to
nonsense. Old ideas of the peculiarity of Hebrew thought that had no tenses,
but aspects, and so they imagine imperfect where there is FT.

Vadim Cherny

> I know I will be sorry for this - but how do you "experts"
> rationalize that "Ehyeh" is "I am" and not "I will be"?
>
> Shoshanna
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> The next phrase is translated as "I am has sent me to you." Schwa in
> slhni raises doubts about that word being 3ms PT verb. Could the
> phrase be better rendered, "I will be a messenger to you"?
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[b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/03/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?, Jim West, 08/03/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?, Peter Kirk, 08/03/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?, Vadim Cherny, 08/04/2005
    - Re: [b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?, Peter Kirk, 08/04/2005
      - Re: [b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?, Vadim Cherny, 08/04/2005
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?, Peter Kirk, 08/04/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] The Tetragrammaton; aia; is there a name in Ex3:14?, Vadim Cherny, 08/04/2005