From: "Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>
To: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 2Sam24:1 v. Gen18:1-3
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:32:38 +0100
Peter wrote:
although plural in form, just like Elohim. But when referring to humans,
adonay is plural "my masters", whereas adoni is singular "my master".
This is quite regular: -i is the basic 1st person singular possessive
suffix, but when added to a plural which would otherwise by -im,
construct -ey, the suffixes contract together resulting in -ay.
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JCR: Yes!Ican see your point. However, the text clearly uses the
tetragramatton here and it is clear that
Abram called the messengers YHWH and this pattern of subtituting messengers
for yhwh and vice versa is
recurrent in the torah. Seeing as the text clearly adresses them as YHWH it
seems pointless to argue that
Abram was adressing them as sirs.
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Re: [b-hebrew] 2Sam24:1 v. Gen18:1-3
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