James,
Religious beliefs apart, reading ancient names grammatically could be
a grave mistake. It is unrealistic that YICXAQ is He-will-laugh and YA
(AKOB is He-will-follow-in-the-footsteps. I also think that the ABI-
of ABI-MELEK is not the-father-of. It is certainly incongruous in the
girl names ABI-GAYIL [see 1 Samuel 25:3], and ABI-$AG [see 1 Kings
1:3]. Similarly, the BAT- in BAT-$EB(A [see 2 Samuel 11:3] and BAT-$U
(A [see 1 chronicles 3:5] need not be the-daughter-of. In fact, the
latter is the daughter of Ammiel.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:15 AM, biblical hebrew wrote:
They promote the interpretation that Yhwh is a third
person imperfect causative of the root HWH with literal meaning 'he
causes
to become' and there are good reasons to support this theory.
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