Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

YaHeWoH?

James Christian

2010/1/17 davedonnelly1 <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>

> Hi all,
> I have been lurking in the backgound with my kindergarten understanding
> of Hebrew, and wondering if either James Christian or Yitzhak Sapir would
> be willing to discuss in any way Gesenius's Scholarly Reconstruction of
> YHWH [i.e. yod-patah-heh-shewa-waw-segol-heh] which seems to have been
> accepted by many scholarly sources as possibly accurately representing
> the original pronunciation of God's name.
> The editors of the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon of 1905 boldly posts
> Gesenius's proposed Hebrew punctuation of YHWH, followed by it's
> letter-by-letter English Transliteration "Yahweh"
> http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/264290/bdbandstrong290.jpg
> The same Hebrew Punctuation can be found in William Smith's 1863 "A
> Dictionary of the Bible",
> which gives credit to Gesenius for having proposed this Hebrew
> punctuation.
> http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-/264290/YahwehfromSmithsBibleDictiona
> rylowres.JPG
> William Smith's 1863 "A Dictionary of the Bible" also notes that
> Gesenius's proposed punctuation was supposed to be represented by the
> "IaBe" of Epiphanius.
> http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/264290/yahwehfromiabe660pixels.JPG
> William Smith's 1863 "A Dictionary of the Bible" also notes their 1863
> evidence that Clement of Alexandria had written "Iaou" and not "Iaoue" in
> his Stromata Book V, chapter 6:34. [Iaou is preseved in the 11th century
> Greek Codex Laurentianus V 3
> http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/264290/1863Smithsoniaou.JPG
> FWIW
> Dave Donnelly
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