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[John Wilking <jcwilking AT yahoo.com>]

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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