I know I will be sorry for this - but how do you "experts" rationalize that "Ehyeh" is "I am" and not "I will be"?"I will be" is modern Hebrew. But it has long been known that in biblical Hebrew this "imperfect" or prefix form is often used in past and present contexts, and that the main element distinguishing it from the "perfect" or suffix form is that the action is continuing or repetitive, like the Russian imperfective aspect.
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