On 19/07/2005 23:03, Rolf Furuli wrote:
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The form YHW is found in the Aramaic Elephantine Papyri from the fifth
century B.C.E. Wowels are lacking, so we do not know whether it was
peronounced as YEHU, YAHU, YEHO, YAHO, or even with other vowels. ...
Or indeed this form could have been pronounced YAHWE, as these letters
predated the wide use of matres lectionis, and most interpreters
understand the final he of YHWH (however it is pronounced) as a mater
lectionis.
A little less than 150 names in the OT ends in YAH, and a few begins with
YAH. But those beginning with YAH never have "o" or "u" as the next vowel
(e.g. YAHO-; YAHU-). But there are several names that begins with YEHO-.
This means that an argument in favor of shewa being the first vowel of
YHWH is much stronger than the argument in favor of "a". ...
Not at all. There is a general phonological rule by which an original
qamats in this position is reduced to sheva, and a patah is impossible in
this position.
Peter Kirk
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peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/
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