Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Are you suggesting that God's full name is Yahoo? We seem to have gone a
long way from YaHWeH in this discussion.

James Christian

2010/1/17 Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>

> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Rolf Furuli wrote:
> > Dear Dave,
> >
> > Gesenius was a very fine scholar. But the form Yahweh is an
> > artificial construction that has absolutely no basis in ancient
> > Hebrew sources. As a matter of fact, today we have no knowledge as to
> > how YHWH was pronounced i the day of the first or second temple.
> > However, on the basis of the use of a part of YHWH in personal Hebrew
> > names (also seen in Akkadian transcriptions of some of these names),
> > the name of God probably had three syllables and not two, as is the
> > case with Yahweh.
>
> What Akkadian evidence are you referring to?  The standard Akkadian
> evidence of yhw is yau, which can be interpreted as the full name
> (-yahwu).  Is this what you read as "part of YHWH"?  If so, in what
> other theophoric name do we find only part of the deity's name
> used?
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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