Johannes Cornelis de Moor wrote about this extensively in "The Rise of Yahwism: The Roots of Israelite Monotheism". It was discussed on this list in 2004.
Noam Eitan, Brooklyn, NY On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:32 PM, K Randolph <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > >
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