“And He called to Moses and YHWH spoke to him” (Lev 1:1). Why is YHWH, the subject of this verse, missing from the opening phrase, and appearing only after the second verb? Traditional and critical scholars struggle to explain this syntactic problem.I'm skeptical. There aren't enough examples to convince me that the explanation offered here is real. But you decide. I just blog.
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