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[davedonnelly1 <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>]

Hi  Oun

You asked:

>>>
If I may, is there any summary I can find on arguments against Yahweh
as the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton? Would it be less accurate
than, say, Ye-Ho-Wa(h)?


Thank you for your help.
>>>

Oun,

In my opinion, the main problem with the name "Yahweh" is ,
[ as far as I know],
it is found in no extant Hebrew Text.

A second problem may be that I am aware of no Hebrew Scholar that claims
that "Yahweh" can be prefixed to "Nathan", to form the theophoric name
"Yehonathan". 
Plus there are about 15 or so more theophoric name that start with a
"Yeho" prefix. 

However both Smith's 1863 "A dictionary of the Bible",  plus a 20th
century Jewish encyclopedia that probably copied Smith's words, claimed
that Yeho can be derived from "Yahweh" in only 3 short steps. 

I am not aware of any Hebrew Scholar who posts on b-hebrew that has done
it.

KJBO Christians are the main Christians who critique the name "Yahweh",
while dogmatically professing that Jehovah is actually God's name.

It is still possible that KJBO Christians are right,.

(Y)Jehovah does not have the precise same vowel points as are found in
"Adonay",
but I doubt if there are very many posters on b-hebrew that believe that
God's name is (Y)Jehovah

Dave Donnelly

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Please pardon my elementary question on this.

If I rewrite Jehovah (correcting J sound), it would be
    YeHoWa
with H sound there but last H sound silent.

Do I see same way Yahweh is in actual pronunciaton
  YaH-we
with my understanding of H here present but not quite English h sound
and the last h is silent.

Probably I asked before somewhere, but I am afraid I did get it clear on
this.

If I may, is there any summary I can find on arguments against Yahweh
as the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton? 
Would it be less accurate than, say, Ye-Ho-Wa(h)?


Thank you for your help.

Oun Kwon.
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Doug:

By now we both notice that most responses believe that the dividing the
earth referred to the Tower of Babel and the dividing of the peoples.

Now to throw a curve into this: many years ago I read an article written by
a creationist who postulated that the Genesis Flood was caused by a large,
heavenly body (comet perhaps) crashing into the earth in the middle of
what=E2=80=99s now the Pacific Ocean. It caused the collapse of the =E2=80=
=9Cwaters above=E2=80=9D
(Genesis 1:7) in a torrent so violent that the waters completely covered th=
e
earth, leaving behind waterlogged materials up to thousands of feet thick.
It enlarged the earth. The shock wave of its impact caused what was left of
the original continent to break apart, but in a way that was not readily
apparent until a couple of centuries after the flood. Then the drift apart
of the continents was rather quick at first, gradually slowing down to the
inches observed today.

He had the mathematical model all worked out, but there he lost me because
of my poor math.

Is that what happened? Possibly. Does this =E2=80=9Cdivision=E2=80=9D refer=
 to the Tower of
Babel? Perhaps. When the surviving data is so slight, it is sometimes hard
to reconstruct exactly what happened in distant history.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Doug Belot <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>
> Now my query is hebrew language related in that I want to know , if
> possible
> , does Gen 10:25 when speaking of dividing the earth actually mean what i=
t
> says , and thus explaining the different languages world wide , and the
> differernt animals , Kangaroo , in Aus ' Zebra in Africa , etc.
>
> Did the existing "earth" as a round ball divide into different areas , ca=
n
> we safely believe that this is what is written and thus this is what it i=
s
> meant to be from what is written here in Gen 10:25 , or will your ability
> to
> rip it into segments of constanants make this implausible.
>
> doug belot
>
>