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@Vadim & SB:

Vadim, you said YHWH offered an oath?  If you think that then YHWH did not 
answer Moses' question so to speak.  And where are you getting the "as I 
live" part?

@SB:  Sure i will look this up in archives, but I don't think "I will be who 
I will be" makes sense.

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> 
> > > YHWH answers " I will be who I will be." 
> > > That does not make sense. 
> > SB: *'ehyeh 'asher 'ehyeh* is just an introduction, not the answer, 
> > which comes in the next clause:" Tell them *'ehyeh* sent you." 
> > 
> 
> He said, 'Thus you will say to children of Israel, 'I will be [As I live], 
> he sent me to you.''" 
> 
> Instead of telling the name, God offered Moses to take an oath before the 
> people. 
> 
> 
> 
> Vadim Cherny 
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Jack (et al.),

I haven't been following the ambiguity thread closely, but having =20
written a whole book about ambiguity in Genesis 12-36, I would =20
definitely agree with you, Jack, on the presence of puns and double =20
entendres in Genesis, along with plenty of other ambiguities.

For what it's worth, some scholars recognize in Hebrew poetry a =20
variety of parallelism that they call "Janus parallelism," which =20
precisely exploits polysemy so that one word can stand in synonymous =20
parallelism to two other words that are not necessarily synonymous =20
with each other. C. H. Gordon is sometimes credited with introducing =20
this idea to modern scholarship. The most recent scholarly article on =20
Janus parallelism (as far as I know) is D. T. Tsumura, "Janus =20
parallelism in Hab. iii 4," Vetus Testamentum 54 (2004) 124-128, =20
where Tsumura proposes to solve an old exegetical difficulty by =20
recourse to Janus parallelism (rather than emendation or arbitrary =20
narrowing of the sense of =D7=A7=D7=A8=D7=A0=D7=99=D7=9D QRNYM. =
Articles on Janus =20
parallelism have also been published in JBL, BZ, and Hebrew Studies =20
by J. Kselman, S. Noegel, D. Christensen, G. Rendsburg, and Tsumura. =20
These authors (and the peer reviewers) are not lightweights, and =20
their careful demonstrations of biblical poets exploiting verbal =20
ambiguity for artistic purposes ought to be taken seriously.

Chris

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