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  • From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • To: "Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>, "ISAAC FRIED" <if AT math.bu.edu>, <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Well Wishing
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:59:03 -0500

After the exile the Aramaic Square Script was adopted for Hebrew. Arabic is a younger script that developed around the 2nd century BCE from a cursive Nabataan Aramaic script. I guess it might be more accurate to say that Hebrew script and Arabic script are an "Aramaic type script." YHWH does not represent English words but is the English (Roman) transliteration of the Hebrew letters yod-heh-waw-heh known as the tetragrammaton and is not pronounced (even if the pronunciation was known) but substituted mentally or vocally if read aloud with "adonai" (Lord). They appeared before the LXX in Hebrew but often written in the pre-exilic paleo-Hebrew script to make it stand out from the Aramaic Square Script.

Jack Kilmon
San Antonio, TX

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From: "Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 4:31 PM
To: "ISAAC FRIED" <if AT math.bu.edu>; <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Well Wishing

Hi to all , The Bible was first written in hebrew , which is similar to an Arabic type script , could someone tell me when the English words , YHWH , first appeared in a Bible translation, did they appear before the Septuagint , did they appear the Massoretic experience , indeed does nayone know ?

doug belot


----- Original Message ----- From: "ISAAC FRIED" <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
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Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Well Wishing


It is not as simple as that.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:09 PM, dwashbur AT nyx.net wrote:



On 17 Sep 2010 at 14:32, Vetrano, Antonino wrote:

Why wouldn't anyone just say thank you for the well wishing during
this solemn season?

I was wondering the same thing. Someone tosses out a nice wish and
blessing, and others
get into a fuss over pronunciation. And really, not even
pronunciation, but transliteration.
Only on b-hebrew.............

Dave Washburn

http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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