Does revelation develop over generations rather than arrive all at once? God tells Moses the patriarchs knew him as El Shaddai but never by the name YHVH. That's a strange admission for a text this concerned with consistency elsewhere. It suggests ev...
Linguisticוארא AND I APPEARED — to the patriarchs.<br><br>באל שדי BY THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY — I made certain promises to them and in the case of all of these I said unto them, “I am God Almighty”.<br><br>ושמי ה׳ לא נודעתי להם BUT BY MY NAME THE LORD WAS I NO...
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