To: <l_barre AT yahoo.com>, "Yohanan bin-Dawidh" <yohanan.bin.dawidh AT gmail.com>, "b-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] More Yahweh outside the Bible
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 10:40:59 +1000
How do you see the translation of the tetragramaton in Jer 23:6 , and is the
Jole 2:32 , "Call on the name of the LORD" , the same name , and should it
be apllied in Rom 10:13
doug belot
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From: "LM Barre" <l_barre AT yahoo.com>
To: "Yohanan bin-Dawidh" <yohanan.bin.dawidh AT gmail.com>; "b-Hebrew"
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Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] More Yahweh outside the Bible
--- On Sat, 2/7/09, Yohanan bin-Dawidh <yohanan.bin.dawidh AT gmail.com> wrote:
From: Yohanan bin-Dawidh <yohanan.bin.dawidh AT gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] More Yahweh outside the Bible
To: l_barre AT yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 5:01 AM
Lloyd;
You wrote, "Actually, it's pronounced Yahweh. We know this from the LXX."
We do not know this from the LXX. I am glad that you are confident that such
is the pronunciation, and if such is the pronunciation that you choose to
use, I will not stop you from doing such, but please do not attempt to tell
me how it is pronounced, especially using a Greek translation to do such.
As to the pronunciation of YHWH, as Yahweh, in my opinion, which could be
wrong, this is a farce on part of the LXX, attempting to keep gentiles from
actually knowing how to pronounce the name. The name of YHWH was given the
vowel points to the Hebrew word Yahbeh, i.e. "Beautiful", as a mean to keep
people from actually being able to pronounce the name.
No, this is not right. The LXX translators had the oral tradition for the
vocalization of the name. I applaud the Jerusalem Bible and the New
Jerusalem Bible for finally translating the Tetragrammaton as "Yahweh."
You wrote, "I do not think that Isaac existed."
This is fine. I do think he existed, since he is one of my ancestors, and
according to my people's accepted history, he definitely existed.
You are not reading the Bible critically.
You wrote, "You take a pious approach, not an academic one."
How is that I take a pious approach? I see myself as taking a logical
approach, rather than a pious approach. I merely stated a fact that such
things do not disprove the Torah per se, this is neither pious, nor impious,
just logic.
As I said, empericism does not allow "proof" but only probability of various
degrees.
You wrote, "The Torah was not formed until Ezra the Scribe."
We will have to agree to disagree, because I think it was completely formed
during the time of Yohoshu'a bin-Nun.
But you have no reasons for thinking so. Just wishful thinking to support
your Jewish nationalism.
Yohanan bin-Dawidh