Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Rolf" <rolf.furuli AT sf-nett.no>]

 Dear Uri,

A source that should not be overlooked is: J.D. Fowler, "Theophoric Personal 
Names in Ancient Hebrew: A Comparative Study," Journal for the Study of the 
Old Testament, Supplement series 49. Sheffieød: Sheffield University Press. 
1988. Fowler does not directly address the issue you mention, but her 
statistics are interesting.


 Best regards,


Rolf Furuli
Stavern
Norway



Onsdag 2. Januar 2013 04:25 CET skrev Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>:

>   Yigal,
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>   As Sancho Panza said, in Bialik's peerless version of Don Quixote, 'I 
> would sign what you said with two hands.'
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>   Just a couple of remarks.
>   On Yahwistic prefixes - these are much more common than the suffixes.    
> As for the name Yokheved  (Alt's suggestion, if memory serves). This would 
> mean honor to Yahweh. That the root KBD was used in PNs is evident of the 
> deragotary ")iy KBWD" , as a name, 1 Sam 4:21, 14:3.
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>   Your statement that from inscriptions we know that "YHW was more common 
> in pre-exilic Judah, and YH in post-exilic Judah", is a very important 
> element in the continuing debate about  diachronic development in the 
> language of the HB. Just to amplify this a bit: all pre-exilic 
> inscriptional YHWH suffixes end in -YHW (Ahituv). All post-exilic such 
> names found in the inscriptions end in -YH (Tal Ilan).
>   As for the names of the early kings of Judah and Israel -- have you seen 
> any discussion or attempted explanation on the absence of YHWH theophoric 
> elements?
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>   Uri Hurwitz
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> 1. Theophoric names that include the name of YHWH may also have Yahwistic 
> prefixes. As such, the first to have such a name was YEHOshua (Joshua), who 
> appropriately received his name from Moses (having previously been called 
> Hoshea). One might argue that Yochebed, mother of Moses, Yehudit, daughter 
> of Ishmael and Yehudah, son of Jacob also have such names, but that can be 
> debated. After Yehoshua, there is of course also Yehonatan (Jonathan) son 
> of Saul.
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> 2. YHWH can also be abbreviated as YW, YHW and YAH. From inscriptions, we 
> know that YW was more common in northern Israel, YHW was more common in 
> pre-exilic Judah, and YH in post-exilic Judah. The Bible, being a Judahite 
> book which was at least heavily edited in the post-exilic period, uses them 
> almost interchangeably, as in Yehonatan/Yonatan or Eliyahu/Eliyah (Elijah).
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> 3. While David may have had a son with a Yawhistic name, most early kings 
> in both Kingdoms did not, The first king in Judah to have a Yahwistic name 
> was Yehoshaphat, and the king who really popularized such names was none 
> other than Ahab, who called his sons Ahazyahu (Ahaziah) and Yehoram/Yoram 
> (Joram). From that time on, almost all of the kings in both kingdoms had 
> Yahwistic names.
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> Now please, what's your point?
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> Yigal Levin
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