Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

James:

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:25 AM, James Christian
<jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Karl. What do you think about the force of the use of Elohim in the
> creation account? Do you see it used as a proper name as I do? I've been
> thinking of preserving this by not translating the name such that we get
> sentences like:
> 'In the beginning Elohim made the...'
>
> James Christian
>
>
> No, I still see it as a title, not a proper name.

That it was even then considered a title can be seen in the closing verse of
the section, 2:4, where the proper name, YHWH, was included with the title,
and in the next section, 2:5–5:2 all mentions had both name and title.

Karl W. Randolph.