>>In Chapter 4 I relate YHWH to the innovation of matres lectionis,
>>noting and discussing the obvious fact that the tetragrammaton
>>consists only of letters used as matres lectionis.
>
>Maybe that is DAVKA on purpose so that it won't be known how to
>pronounce it except if one was specifically TAUGHT how to pronounce
>it?
Very interesting. I have always assumed that the tetragrammaton had
no pronunciation, but I suppose that your suggestion is equally
likely.
(Either way, it sounded nothing like YAHWEH, or JAVE, or JOVE, or
YAHOVA, etc....)
BTW, another interesting data point is that SHEM ADONAI [lit., name
of Adonai] is very frequent, while SHEM ELOHIM is not. Clearly, YHWH
and Elohim were not interchangeable.
-Joel
Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH,
Dr. Joel M. Hoffman, 07/26/2005