Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Wilking" <jcwilking AT yahoo.com>
> I don't know if this has been discussed.
>
> Can we see YHWH as equivalent to ANI as used in Isaiah
> 47:8,10?  This would make YHWH idiomatic for
> "superiority" or the like.
>
>
> John C. Wilking

Dear John,

Why would "ani" here be equivalent to YHWH?   The "ani" ("I") here (at least 
as I read it) is "the daughter of Babylon", a self-satisfied bitch who 
considers herself superior to anyone and anything.

Yigal Levin