To: "Eduardo M. Acuna" <eacuna AT mail.giga.com>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:10:23 -0000
This is an ingenious explanation, but what evidence do you have for this one
rather than the more obvious one that YHWH was pronounced something like
IAW? By the way, I presume that the W here is an omega not a W sound. But
even with the omega this could be consistent with both common suggestions,
Yahwe and Yehowa.
Peter Kirk
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From: Eduardo M. Acuna [mailto:eacuna AT mail.giga.com]
Sent: 15 February 2001 16:53
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: Mesha Stele and the Tetragrammaton
4QLXXLevb translates YHWH as IAW, which is a greek phonetic transcription
for an inverse (i.e., magic) substitution of the (incomplete) vowels of
ADONAI : IANODA.
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