Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 10/08/2005 12:22, David P Donnelly wrote:

> ...
>  
> It almost seems that the Catholic Church has created a hybrid name 
> "Yahweh",
> which has the vowels of "Jabe" and the consonants of "YHWH".
>  

It was not created by the Catholic Church, but originates probably with 
the Protestant Gesenius.

> Peter,
>  
> Did the Samaritan language resemble the Hebrew language in about 400 
> A.D.?


Yes.

>  
> Do the letters yod and he, and waw look the same in the Samaritan 
> language?


The Samaritan script was and is similar to the palaeo-Hebrew. These 
three letters would have been distinct from one another but similar to 
the palaeo-Hebrew forms which were still used for the divine name in 
some MSS of the 1st century CE.

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