Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>]

> 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
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> In a message dated 08/10/2005 11:21:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> VadimCherny AT mail.ru writes:
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> 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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