Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Yitzhak,

> List readers may be interested in the following article:
>
> "Explaining God's Name in Exodus 3," Congress Volume of the
> IOSOT Meeting, Basel 2001 (eds. Matthias Augustin and Hermann
> Michael Niemann), (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004).
> http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Schniedewind_files/Schniedewind_Explaining_Gods_Name_Exodus3.pdf
>
>  
HH: Thanks. I enjoyed William M. Schniedewind's article, "Explaining 
God's Name in Exodus 3," except that I do not accept his conclusions 
about a post-exilic provenance for the text or interpretation. He 
mentions the relevant details and comes to what seems the proper 
conclusion as to the interpretation of the name itself, based on present 
knowledge. I will trry to remember the phrase "idem per idem" and also 
the cross reference to Exodus 33:19:

Ex. 33:19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and 
will proclaim before you the name, ‘The LORD’; and I will be gracious to 
whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard