Jim: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Karl: > **** ** > Thank you for your comments, but except for your very brief mention of > Uriah, they do not directly address my twin contentions that (i) the first > book in the Bible that has as the personal name of an individual character > a west Semitic name ending in -YH that honors YHWH is II Samuel, > Wrong. Go back to my response and see all the names that came before David. > 1. You wrote: “First of all, names ending in -YH and -YHW are alternate > spellings for the same name. So you have to include MYKYHW Judges 17:1, 4 > and CRWYH 1 Samuel 26:6.” > ** ** > Some scholars say that -YHW is the southern way, attributable to old > Judah, whereas -YH is the northern way, which was not adopted by the > Hebrews until later [King David’s time and thereafter]. > Balderdash. Example, look at 2 Kings 1 and see that )LYH and )LYHW both used to refer to the same individual, the same with )XZYH and )XZYHW. > … > ** > 6. You wrote: “Go to 1 Chronicles, the first ten chapters are deadly > to read—all they are are genealogies. So we find before David )YH 1:40, > (ZRYH 2:8, CRWYH 2:16.” > ** ** > Yes, there are dozens of names in Chronicles that end with -YH, many of > which [though not all of which] are west Semitic names that honor YHWH. But > Chronicles comes long after II Samuel in the Bible, even though Chronicles > in part covers time periods before King David. > Because it records events that occurred before King David, it falsifies your thesis. But I also mentioned CRWYH David’s uncle, mentioned in 1 Samuel and 1 Chronicles. Even by your reckoning, 1 Samuel comes before 2 Samuel. > ** ** > 7. Karl, although you make many interesting comments, most of them > [other than your brief mention of Uriah] do not go directly to either of my > twin contentions, which are that (i) the first book in the Bible that has > as the personal name of an individual character a west Semitic name ending > in -YH that honors YHWH is II Samuel, and that (ii) King David should > rightly get the credit for being the first person in the Bible to give to > one or more of his sons a west Semitic name ending in -YH that honors YHWH. > You didn’t read what I wrote, did you? > ** ** > Jim Stinehart > Evanston, Illinois > > Karl W. Randolph.
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