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[John Wilking <jcwilking AT yahoo.com>]

Shoshanna,
   
  I should have said "when HWH is used as a verb." Sorry.
   
  I was assuming that the name YHWH was a reflection of the third person 
singular verb form.  This seems to be a possibility, correct?
   
  John C. Wilking
   
  

Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net> wrote:
  
Of course I know that it is a name and not a verb or a noun, but someone on
this list declared that it was used as a verb, I wanted him to cite where he
thought it was used as a verb.

Shoshanna


> Shoshanna,
>
>
>
> YHWH is not a verb and not a noun, it is a personal name. The entire
> "morphological" argument hinges on the, in my opinion undecidable,
question
> as to whether Y and H are radicals or personal pronouns.
>
>
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shoshanna Walker" 
> To: ; 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:39 AM
> Subject: [b-hebrew] ASKING AGAIN Re: YHWH
>
>
> >I realize that my posts re G-d's authorship of the Torah, get ignored
> > here, but this is a real question that I am asking: Can - at least -
> > the person who claimed that YHWH is used as a verb - answer me,
> > please! I sincerely have no recollection of that.
> >
> > Shoshanna
> >
> >
> > When/where is it used as a verb?
> >
> > Shoshanna
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
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On Dec 26, 2007 8:38 PM, Christopher Kimball wrote:

> The problem is in splitting a single text into pieces without inducing a
> particular result.  Given a machine generated, homogeneous text, one can
> split the text arbitrarily so as to achieve desired statistical
> differences.  This is the root problem of the DH. The DH is a subjective
> splitting that inherently achieves its goals.
>
> The value of the DH is in recognizing the Torah is a composite document
> reflecting different traditions.

Hi Chris,

Yes, you're right.  Let me point out that in discussing contradictions and 
such
I meant something much greater, like the number of days of the flood, or
whether the Israelites crossed Edom or detoured around it.  Furthermore,
while DH is subjective, it is possible to perform the split according to one
criterion and then see how well it matches in others.

Yitzhak Sapir