the complicity of moderates in Nazi GermanySo how did we get from Jehovah to Yahweh Well, again, we really donвЂ™t know how the name was pronounced due to a lack of proper vowel points in the Masoretic text. These earliest manuscripts (and other sources back to the 8th century B.C.) show only the four consonants of that holy name (YHWH in English characters Hebrew fonts used in this study are in the WTHebrew font). &0183 &32 How Was Gods Name (YHWH) Pronounced There are various pronunciations of the only personal name of God as found in the Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament. GOD DOESNвЂ™T NEED A NAME God does not need to be distinguished from other 2009. &0183 &32 Likewise YHWH, Yahweh, or Yehowah became Jehovah in english.

As the tribes of Israel established themselves as a distinct culture among the peoples of Canaan, differing images of God were eventually integrated into the oral and written traditions that shaped the Old Testament.The Hebrew texts often refer to God by the Canaanite term Elohim ( el-o-heemвЂ™). Marcus Borg: whatвЂ™s Christianity all about?I imagine him seated in a directorвЂ™s chair,As he speaks clear and simple instructionsThe massive expanse of the untamed cosmos.Yahweh spent centuries on a singular project(copyright В© 2014 Kurt Struckmeyer) the gods of the Hebrew BibleThe God revealed in the Hebrew bible is an integration of several different cultural traditions in the ancient Middle East. beyond ritual: a life of prayer and action the rich fool and the bigger barn economy how Yahweh met Elohim and created the world

As the stories of the two cultures merged, the different terms for God became somewhat interchangeable and are found throughout the Hebrew Bible.In Hebrew, the name Yahweh is spelled with consonants alone (reading from right to left) as Ч™Ч”Ч•Ч” ( yod-hey-vav-hey). The Arabic Allah derives from the same Semitic root.)As the cultures mixed in the land of Canaan, the Hebrew people overlaid the Sinai tradition of a tribal god named Yahweh onto the established tradition of El, forming a creative combination of a deity who was not only a god of deliverance from slavery but was also the creator of the universe. In our English Bibles, both El and Elohim are translated as вЂGod.вЂ™ (It is interesting to note that Jesus would have used the related Aramaic term alaha ( ahl-ah-hahвЂІ) to speak of God. He was the father of all the other gods ( elohim) in the Canaanite pantheon and was the husband of Asherah, the mother goddess. It was also the proper name of the Canaanite high god El, the father of humanity and all creatures.

They referenced these traditions in shorthand as вЂњEвЂќ (for Elohist) and вЂњJвЂќ (for Jahwist or Yahwist). (In German, J sounds like Y and V sounds like W.) The origin and meaning of the name is disputed, but it may be associated with the Hebrew verb hayah, вЂњto be.вЂќ Some scholars believe it is a shortened form of a word that means вЂњhe causes to beвЂќ or вЂњhe creates.вЂќDuring the Enlightenment, German scholars began to detect these two distinct traditions by separating the El/Elohim texts from the Yahweh texts in the Hebrew Bible. Today, it is commonly pronounced as Yahweh ( yahвЂІ-way), although in prior centuries Jehovah was the more common usage because German scholars transliterated the Hebrew as JHVH. Because the name has only consonants in Hebrew and no vowels, the exact pronunciation is unsure.

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