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  • From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
  • To: <Awohili AT aol.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ANSWER TO JAMES READ Jewish tradition/meaning of yhwh
  • Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:18:43 +0300

> If Moses never received the name of God, etc., then at a bare minimum
there
> is no need for it to be in Torat Moshe at all.

If Moses did not see the face of God, does that bear on Torah's credibility?

Vadim Cherny

> If we can accept that, at a
> bare minimum, Moses had anything at all to do with any part of the Torah,
or
> any of the Torah's traditions, then it is passing strange that Moses had
not
> heard the shem ha-mephorash, which is so significantly a part of the
Torah,
> even being a part, as some surmise, of the name of Moses' mother Yocheved
> (Shemot 6:20).
>
> Some readings of the Torah thus indicate that Israel knew about YHWH well
> before the Egyptian slavery. But they would learn about YHWH in a new way
from
> the time of Moses on.
>
> Solomon Landers
>
> In a message dated 08/10/2005 11:21:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> VadimCherny AT mail.ru writes:
>
> Shoshanna, an appeal to authorities is improper scholarly argument.
> As a bare minimum, Moses never told the name to Israelites or Aaron, and
> never addresses God with it, so apparently he didn't receive it
>
>
>
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