Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Timothy Lawson <lostntym8 AT hotmail.com>]

Jerry,
   I think you understand my perspective...however I speak more English than I understand...I've been told my first language was gobbledygook and that I spoke it right from the crib!

I wonder about point number 2 though. Was the Tetragrammaton left in the script and the vowel points of אדני inserted or was יהוה replaced with אדני? Also, when did this happen? I thought that was at the time of the Masoretes around CE 900.

T. Scott Lawson

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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 21:51:07 -0600
From: jshepherd53 AT gmail.com
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] G. Geroux and the Name

Hi Timothy,

 

I think I understand what you're getting at now; though I may still be wrong.  My responses to your three points are interspersed below.

 

1.) ιαω or יהוה was originally in the earliest copies of the LXX

 

JS:  Is there any substantial, physical, extant evidence for this?  I know there is one DSS fragment of Leviticus that uses ιαω; but this is insufficient to draw conclusions about chronological development.

2.) The use of κύριος as a substitute for ιαω or יהוה

 

JS: As a substitute for the tetragrammaton, yes; but this is at the point of translation, and corresponds with the practice already in place of substituting Adonai for YHWH.  But not a substitution for ιαω.

3.) The awkward Greek construction of κύριος ο θεός which may be a telltale sign that something has been altered.

 

JS: The so-called awkwardness would simply be the result of accommodation to the practice of pronouncing Adonai rather than Yahweh.

 

You can let me know if I've understood you correctly.

 

Blessings,

 

Jerry

Jerry Shepherd

Taylor Seminary

Edmonton, Alberta

jshepherd53 AT gmail.com

 

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