Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Barry <nebarry AT verizon.net>]

On 6/18/2013 1:58 AM, Rolf wrote:

> It is most important to admit that because we do not have the NT
> autographs, both those who believe that these autographs contained
> KURIOS and those who believe that they contained YHWH, argue from
> silence. Both groups must build on circumstantial evidence, and the
> interested persons should consider this circumstantial evidence in
> order to draw their conclusions.

I've tried to stay out of this discussion, but this is too much. This is 
completely false -- it is not an argument from silence. There is 
positive evidence that the autographs contained KURIOS in that all 
surviving manuscripts have either KURIOS or KS. It is the burden of 
proof on the part of one claiming otherwise to explain this, and so far 
no reasonable explanation has been forthcoming. It amounts to "I want it 
to be this way, so therefore it had to be that way." That the nomen 
sacrum could somehow derive from the Hebrew defies logic -- surely the 
Occam's razor explanation is that it derives from the Greek KURIOS, and 
introducing an argument to explain how it had to derive from YHWH is 
surely simply special pleading.

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