Reddit reviews Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar

>claiming that anyone that wrote before the tradition of substituting the Tetragrammaton emerged is not relevant?

No. First, I assume you mean after, not before. Secondly, I made no such claim and I apologize if you took it that way. Nicetas, reading the Septuagint, or the Old Latin, or, at best, contemporary Hebrew manuscripts, had no access to the Jewish vocalizations of 500 years prior. Neither do contemporary scholars. They however rely on a critical examination of linguistic evidence which is published for continued examination, critique and discussion. Do you have any evidence that Nicetas was a critical linguistic scholar operating in such a way? Or that he provided any evidence as to how he knows what he did? Or any qualifications? Because the only qualification listed is that he was a bishop. Do you know the name of that particular logical fallacy?

>your poor attempt at cherry picking should ashame yourself

English is not your first language?

>an author that you claim that demonstrated a lack of basic Hebrew competence, while you:

That's right. It's not an extravagant claim, nor does it require citation as it is self-evident (or, at least, it would be to anyone with a basic grasp of biblical Hebrew). Nicetas claims the Tetragrammaton/Iehovah means "Who is, and who shall be." It doesn't. This is basic Hebrew. What is my citation? Well I could start with every Hebrew textbook that's ever been written. Or anyone who has taken a semester of Hebrew. Perhaps Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar or the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (any edition) would be good places to start.

So are you defending the definition of "YHWH" as "Who is, and who shall be"? That tells me you as well lack even a basic understanding of Hebrew. I however do have a competent understanding of Hebrew. Would you like to see my transcript? You can pick either my graduate or undergraduate study of ancient Judaism and the Hebrew language. Or perhaps read my Master's thesis, a linguistic examination of selected translation techniques of the Septuagint?

As for George Buchanan, he doesn't have much to say in your favor:

"When the Tetragrammaton was pronounced...
it was pronounced in "three" syllables
and it would have been 'Yahowah' "

"The correct pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton
is either Yahohwah or Yahuwah."

It is unclear from the English whether Buchanan is suggesting either a patakh or qamets as the initial vowel. Regardless, he is most certainly not suggesting the schewa that occurs in the Masoretic editions and that became the "e" in Iehova.

So do you actually have any knowledge of this material or do you rely on just one questionable website?

http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/7_home.html for Hebrew
http://www.ntgreek.net/ for Greek

More dedication than I could possibly muster to get it done!

For Greek you might want to consider Mounce's Book and workbooks. When we learned Greek in Seminary, we used Wenham but I imagine he's probably out of print now. For hebrew we use La Sor which was great. It used to come in two volumes which was handy, as you basically wind up tearing the one volume book in half to be able to switch between the teaching and the exercise part of the book. I also own Gary Pratico's Basics of Biblical Hebrew and found it helpful trying to recapture some of my lost languages. Overall, my learning style is better matched to the books/workbooks model if I can't get into an actual teacher led class - more than online lessons, but naturally, your mileage may vary.