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Originally Posted by Nigel.Tomes
Your current conclusion seems to be: "I do not see how these scholars can say that the Name was almost definitely pronounced Yahweh. I think Jehovah is a better guess than Yahweh."
To me this conclusion seems premature. I only quoted part of the literature discussing the Hebrew tense (etc) of the Heb. verb "to be" There are different views among Hebrew scholars on these & related issues. The imperfect tense is only one possibility. (I simply didn't want to complicate matters by bringing these points into the paper) Why don't you check out the articles, books etc which I cited? Some of these people who conclude that YHWH implies God's personal name is Yahweh are respected Hebrew scholars with academic credentials. I don't think they should be lightly dismissed by saying: "I think Jehovah is a better guess than Yahweh." That seems to me to be an unwarranted & cavalier statement.
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Bro Nigel,
Thanks for taking the time to give a detailed answer.
I agree that my conclusion was premature.
I had based it on the argument that Yahweh was the 3ms imperfect of haya, which it factually is not.
But you had many more arguments than that, and I based my conclusion on the wrongness of that argument.
I've posted the question on b-hebrew. There has been a lot of discussion about this there in the past, which I had ignored.
Also, as always, thanks very much for all the work you put into bringing these matters to be fellowshipped about among the churches.