To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:43:53 -0700
> Dear Eduardo,
> What does your perception of Ieoua do with the shortened forms YaH and YaHu?
> Also, how do you account for LXX YABE?
> Charles David Isbell
>
Charles,
I haven't seen this spelling in the LXX, but I haven't looked that hard
either. Just guessing, I'm wondering if the "b" is a Greek attempt
to render the WAW as a "v" sound? I don't know how that would
work into Eduardo's approach, but that's my idea for what it's worth.
Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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