To: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>, "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH pronunciation
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:12:07 +0300
> Vadim, this is not true. If by "Jews" you mean people speaking from Jewish
> tradition, then Jewish tradition does not have a vocalization of the
> Tetragrammaton, and cosiders it forbidden to pronounce. And I know of no
> Jewish source that understands the Tetragrammaton as anything but a proper
> noun.
>
> That there are individual Jews, including perhaps some on this list, who
> have concluded that YHWH is a verb and that it may have been vocalized in
> one way or another, is their privelage. None of them speak for Jewish
> tradition.
I meant only common pronunciation, which corresponds to niphal. It is not
the only one, but quite common.