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Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14

From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
To: <kgraham0938 AT comcast.net>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:27:35 +0300

> I understand what you are saying, however, I don't think "I will be who I
will be" answers Moses' question.
>
> Moses ask "What is your name?" paraphrase.
>
> YHWH answers " I will be who I will be."
>
> That does not make sense. That is why I think I am who I am is the best
translation.
>

That does not makes sense in English. In other languages, Russian and Modern
Hebrew in particular, it is idiomatic refusal. And this meaning is supported
by similar constructs in Ex33:19.

Vadim Cherny

[b-hebrew] Ex3:14 , (continued)
- [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Michael Abernathy, 09/12/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/13/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Read, James C, 09/12/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Peter Kirk, 09/12/2005
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/13/2005
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Peter Kirk, 09/13/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/13/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Awohili, 09/13/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Peter Kirk, 09/13/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, kgraham0938, 09/13/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/14/2005
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      - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Jim West, 09/14/2005
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      - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/15/2005
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Matanya Ophee, 09/15/2005
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/15/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/14/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, kgraham0938, 09/14/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Stoney Breyer, 09/14/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/15/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, kgraham0938, 09/15/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/15/2005