by Alfred 30 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Take a clipboard out to the sidewalk and ask people this one simple question:
"Can you tell me who Jehovah is?"
If more than 1 in 4 say that it is God's name I would be SHOCKED. It's probably less than 1 in 10.
Even fewer would know who YHWH is.
I'm not arguing that USE of the name is CORRECT. I'm just arguing that if you are going to call God by the accepted cultural name, like it or not, Jehovah is still it. People just don't use the name "Yaweh."
Dontplaceliterature asked
Do you have a scholarly reference to prove that Jehovah is a combination of YHWH and Adonai?
This is a reference, don't know about scholarly, from the
Watchtower 1st August 1960 page 455.
Hebrew, like other Semitic languages, has no vowel letters, but even in early times vowel signs were used.
These vowels, according to Adams, "are indicated by ‘points' or little symbols-usually dots, resembling small periods. So when scholars of the early Modern Age began translating the Bible into English they devised what were sometimes wrong interpretations of the vowels."
The name-form Jehovah came to be when early translators took the vowels of Adonay′ and inserted them between the consonants JHVH, and then changed the original "a" to "e" to aid in pronunciation of the name.
Recent discoveries show this form of the name as early as A.D. 1270 in Raymond Martini's Pugio Fidei. So the name-form Jehovah is one of long usage.
Awesome, Thomas....man the best way to disprove the WT continues to be with WT literature!
About the origins of "Jehovah"
http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Jehovah.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah
In A Dictionary of the Bible (1863), William Robertson Smith summarized these discourses, concluding that "whatever, therefore, be the true pronunciation of the word, there can be little doubt that it is not Jehovah". [ 94 ]
My (JW) hubby has picked up the local habit of saying "GEE hovah". I cringe every time.
Watchtower 1st June 1970 page 343-344 says
However, although the English word "Jehovah" is rated as a "monstrosity," it does contain the four basic consonants of the Hebrew tetragrammaton.
These consonants were combined with the vowels of the Hebrew word Adonay (Lord) to produce the name Jehovah
Thanks for the reference Thomas! I don't remember ever hearing that before.
Watchtower 15th September 1990 page 8 says
Jesus used God's name, Jehovah, in his ministry and demonstrated a correct pronunciation of it, but he did more than that to make God's name manifest to his apostles
Watchtower 15th September 1990 page 8 says
Jesus used God's name, Jehovah, in his ministry and demonstrated a correct pronunciation of it, but he did more than that to make God's name manifest to his apostle
bona fide whopper!
dpl
your welcome
Jesus used God's name, Jehovah, in his ministry and demonstrated a correct pronunciation of it, but he did more than that to make God's name manifest to his apostles
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