1) On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 08:45:42 -0500 [email protected] wrote:
Possibly Moses wanted to be ready with an answer to an expected question by the
elders of Israel, or by Paroh himself as to the meaning (meaning!) of the name
of the God of Israel and he gets the answer EHYH = EHWH. (…)
2) At 11:22:42 -0500 he also wrote:
It occurs to me that a similar situation transpires in Judges 13:17-18: (…)
“What is your name (…)?” (…)
1) How do we know what Moses thinks? Should we not confine ourselves to what is
narrated?
2) The correspondence of the question ‘What is his name’ with the question in
Judges 13:14 and
also that in Gen 32:30 (translations v. 29), all occurring in theophany
narratives, has already
often been noted. A similar thing applies to Exod 6.3 These correspondences
should indeed be
taken into account when dealing with the question of Moses in Exod 3:13 and
God’s response to it.
3) The question of Moses is mostly analyzed insufficiently, also in previous
B-Hebrew
discussions (for references see my post of 16 December). Commentators are
jumping to the
famous answer ’ehye ’asher ’ehye, although this is in one way or another a
response to Moses’
question. For the moment I would like to focus on another particularity of it:
in Moses’
question the name question is attributed to the Israelites as a question they
will pose as a matter
of course. Why is that?
Cornelis den Hertog
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