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  • From: "Rev. Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>
  • To: "Rolf" <rolf.furuli AT sf-nett.no>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] G.Gertoux and the Name...
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:56:24 -0700

Dear Rolf,

As you well know the following:

KS is an abbreviation of KURIOS.
QS is an abbreviation of QEOS.
PNA is an abbreviation of PNEUMA.

Each of these abbreviations would be used to distinguish between lord =
master, sir, Lord versus LORD, Lord (adonay); god versus God; wind, breath,
spirit versus Spirit. These would have used in the 2nd Century AD by
Christian scribes making more copies of the Greek Old Testament (GOT) and the
LXX (BOTH subsumed by scholars under LXX). The best examples of this
phenomena would have been the Great Codexes Alexandrinus, Sinaiticus and
Vaticanus. And this would make sense since they were addressing the
predominately Gentile, Greek speaking members of the church. The Greek texts
found in the DSS would make sense since it is found within Hebrew/Aramaic
speaking area of Palestinian Judaism.

See http://www.lib.umich.edu/reading/Paul/nominasacra.html for a list of
abbreviations found in P46. These abbreviations for the Nomina Sacra would be
for strictly Chrisitan purposes, but some abbreviations would be found in
non-literary papyri. Most of these abbreviations were used more for speed in
writing than for readability, but also to make a distinction between a
regular use of a word and the use of the word as a holy word. See also
http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/NominaSacra.html.

Now, getting back to the purpose of this list.

YHWH is found 6828 times in the Tanakh. The question is when did the use of
Adonay in Qere begin to be used as a substitute for YHWH? I do not think that
any one really knows. It would be based on conjecture, etc. Since the GOT was
first translated in Alexandria during the reign of Philadelphus Ptolemy ca
250 BC, it would be easy to see that KURIOS was used to translate YHWH. And I
have shown that sometimes YHWH was left untranslated when Adonay YHWH was
found in the Hebrew Text especially in Ezekiel which has Adonay YHWH 217 of
317 found in the Tanakh. That still does not answer the question since
pronunciation and the use of Adonay in Qere would not be known. We have only
WRITTEN documents. We have no MP3 that is able to produce the original,
accurate or any other pronunciation ancient or modern scholarship's attempt
of the Tetragrammaton, PERIOD. We can only draw conclusions based on the
written documents. We can draw inferences based on secondary material, but
that is, at best, educated guesswork, i.e. speculation. Until we have more
evidence in either direction all we can do is agree to disagree, but the
predominance of the evidence leans against your position.

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III






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