jehovah emergence
learned where the whole jehovah name for God developed the other day, thought perhaps you might be interested.
everyone is probably familiar with the practice of hebraic dropping of vowels in the old testament scriptures, basically to preserve time and space. so the name of YHWH was also so abbreviated, and towards the latter centuries of B.C. vowel pronunciation notations of the replacement name of Adonai were superimposed upon YHWH to guide those who recited the scriptures in the synagogues in the tradition that had developed that the name of YHWH was no longer to be spoken, but Adonia in its place. so basically the reinvent-the-wheel-pre-johovah’s-witness-folks came across that notation and figured out for themselves in isolation from tradition and biblical scholarship that His name was actually jehovah, and they were the only ones to step forward and be faithful thereto.
that straight basic textual attentiveness is so lost with this particular splinter group doesn’t exactly recommend itself to trusting them in the various other novel theological developments that they have since brilliantly come up with.
anyway, thought it might be a fun fact to pull out next time they knock on your door at some inopportune time…
Although, there is also some scholarship which suggests that Jehovah is also a mispronunciations. Alternative pronuciations are (and more commonly accepted in protty circles)’Ya-way’ or ‘Ya-vey’ and it is often transliterated ‘Yaweh’.
Comment by Andrew Simone — Tuesday, October 24, 2006 @
Jehovah is the english form of Yahweh, just like Jesus is the english form of Yesh’u'a,
We dont call Jesus Yeshua do we,no, we use the english form, Jesus, also it would be good
to do research on the word hallilujah, which literally is translated praise JAH, or if you
lived in Israel, praise YAH or YAW, so JW’s didnt just pull the name Jehovah out of a hat,
if you research that name with even using there books, you will find the truth about the
name Jehovah, and JW’s have no problem telling the truth even if its unpopular.
Comment by Christine wright — Friday, October 27, 2006 @
EDIT last comment, (if you research that name with even using there books) should read ” if you research that name
without using there books”
Comment by Christine wright — Friday, October 27, 2006 @
the matter came up merely as an aside in OT class; i’m definitely no hebrew expert, but my source, Dr. Vall is, and he diagrammed the two versions of YWHW in hebrew, including the late BC versions with the Adonai vowel notations superimposed, producing the account given above, with the resultant contradistinguised pronounciations he demonstrated for us as the source of Jehovah vs. Yahweh. that there is debate on the account is definitely noted, and if i myself was a student of hebrew i could say more on it, but not quite there yet, although on my more ambitious days i am tempted : ) in the meantime i lean on an esteemed authority who knows of what he speaks, and whose account would have to be as fully demonstrated against for the alternative to seem more true.
and it’s ‘their’ not ‘there’
(just one of my little english grammatical pet peeves)
Comment by Not of this World — Saturday, October 28, 2006 @