medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Robert Kraft wrote:
>
> >By itself or in other combinations of divine names/attributes, ADWNAI (with omega;
> >sometimes ADONAI with omicron) occurs all over the place, including in Greek
> >Jewish scriptures ("LXX/OG"), as a substitution for the unpronounced
> >tetragrammaton YHWH ("LORD" or "Jehovah" in most translations). It probably has
> >made its way into some liturgical materials through its use in (various versions
> >of) Greek scriptures, and many of the 400 or so occurrences in the TLG data bank
> >are quotations from LXX/OG (especially Ezekiel).
> >
> >Bob Kraft
> Where are you finding it in Ezekiel, which is where I would have
> expected to find it? The household TLG discs are giving Sirach, 4
> Macc., & Wisdom for *athanatos*.
>
> DW
AQANAT- is not in Ezekiel, but ADWNAI is all over the place in a number of
witnesses wherever you find TADE LEGEI KURIOS ("Thus says YHWH"), usually as TADE
LEGEI ADWNAI KURIOS (other witnesses have the equally redundant TADE LEGEI KURIOS
KURIOS, which shows that something was going on in the treatment of the
tetragrammaton here; we also find the visual [mis]representation PIPI, which looks
like Hebrew YHWH [visualize it], in some witnesses). You won't find this
information in TLG or the main scholarly editions of LXX/OG, which follow the
minority text of Vaticanus and some allies, but it is extremely frequent in such
witnesses as Theodoret's commentary on Ezekiel, as well as in some manuscripts.
Bob
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