Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Garth Grenache <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>]

Dear Karl,

Karl> What you have yet to do is to give me any indication whatsoever that 
YHWH
was pronounced ?Yahweh? in the original Biblical Hebrew pronunciation. From
Hebrew sources, I conclude that the name had at least three syllables.

Now you are saying that it is from Hebrew sources that you've come to insist 
on a 3-syllabic pronunciation, but previously you were saying that you reckon 
that a spelling such as IAOUE must represent a Hebrew name with more than 
3-syllables.

I and others on this list have demonstrated that there is scholarly concensus 
that at the time of Clement's writing and for half a millenium beforehand, OU 
represented 'u' and 'w', and thus there is no need to assert that OUE 
represents more than one Hebrew syllable.

How Greek's perceived that one syllable is irrelevant to discussion: they 
consistenly represented w- as OU-.

Garth Grenache.
                                          
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