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  • From: John Wilking <jcwilking AT yahoo.com>
  • To: TedBro AT aol.com, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH
  • Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:52:17 -0800 (PST)

Ted,

It's not different syntax, it's different morphology and I realize that.
But I'm not sure that we know that the verbal aspect is emphasized. Hebrew
doesn't seem to have a standard copula like Greek and when YHWH is used as a
verb it often is just a helping verb.

John C. Wilking

TedBro AT aol.com wrote:
John:

Despite the fact that some translations render ANI as "I am" in Isaiah
47:8, the syntax is very different than YHWH...

1) ANI is a pronoun, while YHWH is presumably some verbal form, of HYH.
2) The role of ANI in these verses is to emphasize the first person which
is also present in the suffix of 'PSi while in YHWH the emphasis is on the
verbal aspect (either being or becoming). In Ex 3:14 the first person is
alluded to as the meaning of the divine name but the form YHWH is third
person.

Cheers,
ted brownstein

In a message dated 12/22/2007 1:07:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jcwilking AT yahoo.com writes:
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








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=20
Kenneth Greifer:=20
1. Death of the Leader of Shechem
Both in the secular history of the mid-14th century BCE and in chapter 34 o=
f=20
Genesis, the leader of Shechem makes a goodwill gesture toward the new=20
monotheists, which he realizes leaves him temporarily vulnerable. In secula=
r=20
history, Lab=E2=80=99ayu agreed to go meet with pharaoh Akhenaten in
Egypt=20=
to try to=20
explain Lab=E2=80=99ayu=E2=80=99s controversial, expansionist actions as th=
e leader of Shechem. =20
On his way to Egypt, when he assumed he had a right of safe conduct, Lab=
=E2=80=99ayu=20
was killed by men of Jenin, who were pro-Akhenaten, but who acted without=20
having received any orders from Akhenaten. Likewise, in chapter 34 of Gen=
esis,=20
Jacob=E2=80=99s sons take their morally questionable actions against the te=
mporarily=20
vulnerable leader of Shechem without having received any orders from Jacob.=
=20
The most concise mention of Lab=E2=80=99ayu=E2=80=99s death in the Amarna Le=
tters is at =20
#280: 30-35:=20
=E2=80=9CLab=E2=80=99ayu, who used to take our towns, is dead=E2=80=A6.=E2=
=80=9D=20
1. Consorting with the Habiru/Hebrews
The Amarna Letters never use the word =E2=80=9CHebrews=E2=80=9D, but they fr=
equently use =20
the word =E2=80=9Chabiru=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9C=E2=80=98Apiru=E2=80=9D.
All=20=
these terms refer to tent-dwelling people=20
in Canaan.=20
Lab=E2=80=99ayu, the leader of Shechem in secular history, seems to take the=
words=20
right out of the mouth of Hamor, the leader of Shechem in chapter 34 of =20
Genesis, when Lab=E2=80=99ayu writes to Akhenaten (the equivalent of
Jacob,=20=
in the sense =20
that each is the first historical leader of a monotheistic people) at
#254:=20=
=20
30-37:=20
=E2=80=9CI did not know that my son was consorting with the =E2=80=98Apiru.=
=E2=80=9D=20
Those very words would fit perfectly into Genesis 34: 8.=20
1. 318 Good Men Mustered from Southeastern Canaan for First Monotheist
The number 318 is a very peculiar number. I have never seen it anywhere =20
else.=20
At Genesis 14: 14, we read that exactly 318 good men are mustered from =20
southeastern Canaan for the good cause of the first historical monotheist.
=20=
(In the=20
Bible, Abraham is the first historical monotheist.)=20
In Amarna Letter #287: 53-59, per William Moran=E2=80=99s footnote #18 at p.=
300, we=20
read that exactly 318 good men are mustered from southeastern Canaan for the=
=20
good cause of the first historical monotheist. (In secular history,=20
Akhenaten is the first historical monotheist.)=20
1. Conclusion
There are too many striking =E2=80=9Ccoincidences=E2=80=9D like this. In my=
controversial=20
opinion, the first historical Hebrew lived in the mid-14th century BCE, and=
=20
his world was the same world as the world of the Amarna Letters. The foreg=
oing=20
items cannot possibly be fiction ginned up by four Hebrew ghostwriters in=20
the mid-1st millennium BCE, per the Wellhausen JEPD theory of the case. No=
=20
way.=20
Jim Stinehart=20
Evanston, Illinois



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