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There is no grammatical or linguistic reason to translate Ehyeh as "I am"
at Exodus 3:12 OR 3:14. All the justifications I have read have been,
ultimately, theological.
If it is true, according to some traditions, that the Torah portion of the LXX was translated with non-Jews in mind, that may well explain why it does not give a literal translation for Ehyeh-asher-ehyeh, but rather an interpretation to suit the Greek mind. When the Torah was later translated into Greek for Jews by Aquila and Theodotion in the 2nd century, Ehyeh at Exodus 3:14 was given in Greek as "esomai," i.e., "I will be." Solomon Landers Shoshanna Walker wrote: > > On Hebrew Grammar |
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