[B-Greek] YHWH into Greek
Gene Gardner
g_gardner1234 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 6 08:07:18 EST 2005
Rolf stated:
An interesting discussion is found in G. W. Buchanan, "Some Unfinished Business with the Dead Sea Scrolls" Revue de Qumran 1988, 13:49-52.
Rolf,
Thank you for your detailed explanations as well as putting forth your opinions and theories. It is greatly appreciated. I found the quote below on the internet from the author that you cited. Could you verify its accuracy?
"The original form of the divine name was almost certainly three syllables, NOT two. The accumulated data points heavily in the direction of a "three" syllable word.
George W. Buchanan,
"Some Unfinished Business With the Dead Sea Scrolls,"
RevQ 13.49-52 (1988), 416
I also found this quote on the internet from a Samaratin site, that stated that the Greek IaBe was not an accurate rendering of the Divine Name:
Originally the Samaritans or Shamerim (keepers, as they call themselves)were divided into two groups, Dosithean and Sabbuai. The Sabbuai later became known as the Kushaniyya, the modern day Samaritans are from this group. The Kushaniyya refused to pronounce the divine name and supplanted it with the term Shema (Aramaic for "The Name"). The Dositheans on the other hand used the divine name, but as they no longer exist it cannot be known how they pronounced the divine name. Many scholars claim that the pronunciation of the Divine Name as "Yahweh" is accurate due to Samaritan inscriptions written in Greek which write the Divine Name as "Yabe" The Samaritans in most instances pronounce beth, veth, waw, pe and fe as a "b". But what these scholars fell to realize is that the Samaritans like the Rabbinates subsituted a the Name with another word when they came across the Name written in the Torah. The Samaritans unlike the Rabbinates did not read Adhonai when they came
accross the Divine Name, but "yabe" or innon-Samaritan pronunciation "yafe" (Beautiful). Therefore the pronunciation of the divine name as Yahweh is inaccurate based upon the Samaritan/Kushaniyya desire 'not' to pronounce the divine name. Thus, not even the Samaritans to our knowledge remained as one group, who were in complete agreement with one another.
http://shomron0.tripod.com/2004/feb12.html
(bottom of page)
Just wondering if you had any thoughts pertaining to the above quote?
Thanks,
Gene Gardner
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