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  • From: James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>
  • To: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe equals Yahweh?
  • Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:44:51 +0200

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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