[Fwd: Re: EGW EIMI in GJohn (was Present tence copulative verbs)]
Jonathan Robie
jonathan at texcel.no
Wed Sep 2 08:58:53 EDT 1998
At 06:45 PM 9/1/98 EDT, GregStffrd at aol.com wrote:
>Here is a quote from Margaret Davies, Rhetoric and Reference in the Fourth
>Gospel (JSNTSup 69; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992), 85, that
might
>help:
>
>Brown insists that the doubling of the `I am' in the Septuagint
translation of
>Isa. 43:25, `I, I am he who blots out your transgressions': ego eimi ego eimi
>exaleiphon. . .' means that the second `I am' is a declaration of the divine
>name. In other words, God declares, `I am "I am" (= divine name), who blots
>out your transgressions.' Were there evidence that elsewhere `I am' is the
>divine name, this would be a possible, but not a necessary reading of the
>Septuagint of Isa. 43:25 (and cf. Isa. 51:12).
What other readings are possible, and what is the evidence in favor of
them? Was my understanding of the Hebrew for Isaiah 45:19 correct? That is,
is the LXX phrase EGW EIMI EGW EIMI a translation of the Hebrew phrase ANiY
YeWaH, and does this phrase mean "I, the Lord" or "I, Yahweh"? If so, isn't
this evidence for Brown's position?
Jonathan
jonathan at texcel.no
Texcel Research
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