Re: YHWH/Allah (Was: Re: Non-constructed religions)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 5:03 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> I don't think that pronunciation is that "definite;" we have no way of
> knowing accurately what the vowels were.
Fairly accurately. There's the form -yahu/-yau used in proper names
which (so I've read) is a regular "short form" (I think there was some
technical term) of yahweh, plus there were documents written by non-Jews
in ancient times about the Jews (including a reference to their God's
name) in languages which mark vowels using those vowels.
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