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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Hi V.I.W., good to hear from you. Don't make yourself so scarce my brother!
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Thanks UntoHim,
Is there a way to get emails on new threads? I pretty much only visit when Nigel has posted something new, because his writings facilitate good discussion. Other than that, it's usually, Out of Sight, Out of Mind.
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Originally Posted by UntoHim
You bring up some interesting linguistic twists, but other than citing "the software I use", you don't cite your scholarly/authoritative sources. I say this assuming you're not a Hebrew scholar in your own right.
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I'm not a scholar. I know some Hebrew, and that is enough to know that the 1st (and I think strongest) justification for Yahweh ref'd by Nigel is wrong. That is the quotation from Prof. John J. Davis.
UntoHim, I think you know a little Hebrew, so you could follow the refs below.
Except for the pronunciation, what I said are just facts. Here it is with refs:
1. Yahweh is not any form of conjugation of the verb haya, which is the word God used for "I am" in Exo 3.
Here is the verb table for haya:
http://www.pealim.com/dict/454-lihyot/?highlight=p3ms
look at the Future Tense 3rd person maculine. It's transliterated there for you. The Hebrew spelling is YHYH. God's name is YHWH.
In Nigel's paper, Dr. Davis gives the most convincing argument for God's name being pronounced Yahweh except that it is just plain wrong. I looked Dr. Davis up on Wikipedia and am surprised to find that he taught Hebrew and OT. If anyone wants, I can post the Dr. Davis' statements on B-Hebrew and ask what people think?
2. YHWH is the 3ms imperfect conjugation of the verb hava.
http://www.pealim.com/dict/452-lehavot/?highlight=p3ms
Again look at the Future Tense 3rd person masculine.
The Hebrew word is YHWH, which is the same spelling as God's name.
This website's transliteration gives "yehave" as the transliteration. where the "e" at the end is actually pronounced "eh", which I can tell from the Hebrew vowels above.
The s/w I use, which is called HebrewWorks, gives different vowels than the above website. The vowels it gives transliterate to "yeheveh".