Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:47:56 -0500
Subject: Re: MB: Ilya


Reply to message from FLESCH-AT-binah.cc.brandeis.edu of Wed, 27 Dec
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>I think he's asking whether Jabes is punning on il y a, which he certainly
>could be.
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>William Flesch
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I think there is rather a play on Hebrew letters and words.  EL is a 
term (abbreviation) for God (El, Elohim), Ya is common and part of the 
other word for God, Yahweh; Hence, Elya, Yael, Aely.  Let's call it
three anagrams on syllables referring to the Hebrew God.
                                             Walter A. Strauss>