For reasons we will discuss below, the Name became (or had always been) unpronounceable, and wherever the text called for YHWH, a reader would pronounce the Hebrew word for lord, namely Adonai. In the Middle Ages, the Masoretes began to fear that the traditional pronunciation of the writte...
Incidentally, English translations of the Hebrew Scritpures have a distinct way of marking when the sacred name is used in the Hebrew texts rather than other appelations. Careful attention to an English text will show that often the words "Lord" or "God" are written in all capital letters...
There have been inexpressible amounts of edits, omissions and revisions made from the translations of these original manuscripts that have been repeatedly copied from Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and Greek into an assortment of languages and varied interpretations. Each translation being influenced and adopted...
and kill one another over them. The Islamic immigrants are violently opposed to the cultural background of the nations they findthemselves in, and one element they find very distasteful is the "christmas tree." This object is an ancient esoteric device embraced by Christianity, yet it represents...
The Old Testament was written in ancient Hebrew, which has no vowels whatsoever and precious little punctuation. The phrase ‘I Am Who I Am’ — God’s name as revealed to Moses— is written with four consonants: Y H W H. Hence YHWH = I Am Who I Am. These four letters are known...
This answer has the deity’s name as deriving from the Hebrew root ה.י.ה (or ה.ו.י) meaning “to be,” understanding Israel’s deity as the (Supreme) Being. This is akin to the deity’s other name, (Ha-)Elohim, “the [supreme] God” mentioned just before (Exod ...
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known as the Textus Receptus and 717 times in the Nestle-Aland manuscripts). Its origins may or may not be Babylonian. God apparently felt it was fine to inspire the writers of the New Testament to use that and other non-Hebrew names for deity (see alsoThe Bible, Church History, and ...