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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: biblical hebrew <jcr.bhebrew AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Translation theory and the tetragrammaton - YHWH
  • Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:07:22 -0400

James,

Religious beliefs apart, reading ancient names grammatically could be a grave mistake. It is unrealistic that YICXAQ is He-will-laugh and YA (AKOB is He-will-follow-in-the-footsteps. I also think that the ABI- of ABI-MELEK is not the-father-of. It is certainly incongruous in the girl names ABI-GAYIL [see 1 Samuel 25:3], and ABI-$AG [see 1 Kings 1:3]. Similarly, the BAT- in BAT-$EB(A [see 2 Samuel 11:3] and BAT-$U (A [see 1 chronicles 3:5] need not be the-daughter-of. In fact, the latter is the daughter of Ammiel.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:15 AM, biblical hebrew wrote:

They promote the interpretation that Yhwh is a third
person imperfect causative of the root HWH with literal meaning 'he causes
to become' and there are good reasons to support this theory.





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