To: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] IaBe = YHWH or IaBe = Jove?
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:12:34 +0300
Perhaps there is none, indeed, but a mere connection of Jove with iouis is
no proof. Loan words are commonly adapted to have meaning in the target
language.
Vadim Cherny
> There is no etymological relationship between the Latin "Jove" (from iovis
> pater...pronounced yawis) and the much older SemiticYHWH..
>
> Jack Kilmon