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Yikes, Liz. You’re assuming I know enough to have an opinion on the Elephantine Papyri – I don’t even know Aramaic. And I’m not really sure how to explain the various differences in the divine name. But it does seem likely that YHW would have been pronounced differently from YHWH, don’t you think? Given that it can occur both as YH (usually in names, or in HLLW YH); as YHW (in names, or in extra-Biblical texts); as YHWH (normally in the Bible); and in Exodus 3:14 – probably as a word play -- as )HYH, it doesn’t seem at all unreasonable to conclude that it may have been pronounced different ways at different times. Why this is so, or what significance this might have had, I’m not at all sure.
Ken
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Interesting, Ken. are these just dialect differences? Also, in your list of examples, you left out my personal favorite: David's continually swearing "as YHWH lives," I'm going to get that bastard, or some such. Liz
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