Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

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
>
>
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> 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
> > >
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