"One might wish to follow Martin Buber and understand this "explanation" of the name as a refusal of revelation: "I am who I am" and what that is is none of your business. Nevertheless, in the following verses this explanation seems to be explicitly put into a relation to the name Yhwh. ... The form ʾehyeh echoes first of all the promise of assistance of verse 12, ʾehyeh ̔immāk. "I shall be" or "I am" refers in the first instance to the god who "is with [Moses]" and promises Moses help."
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Thomas Römer: The Invention of God, ch. 1, "The God of Israel and His Name", p. 29. Harvard University Press (2016). .
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