To Jews, a "name" was more than a sound, it was the very being of the person. Hence the need to change a person's name at a critical point in some person's lives (Peter, Abraham, etc., etc.)
The issue is not the vocalisation but what the Name represents, or means.
An interesting exercise is to examine the geographic and tribal sources of each of the Names (El, YHWH, etc.,) and also to see the attempts at harmonizing the various sources, such as the J and E sources for the accounts of Creation (when does YHWH first appear? etc.)
We also need to recognize the strenuous efforts of the Yahwists to make their name the pre-eminent one (and the problems they had to try and eradicate Asherah as YHWH's wife).
Ultimately, the NT speaks to us about the "name" of Jesus being paramount. Christians are to witness to his name, and they will be persecuted for the sake of his name.
Doug
Jehovahs or Yawehs name ,JW's got it right?
by wozadummy 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Doug Mason
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IP_SEC
as Christ said in the "Lord's Prayer", show it HONOR.
You mean the prayer where 'chirst' didnt even use that name?
Jebus wasnt a JW.
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MsMcDucket
I was reading somewhere that the Jews used Adonai for God's name "; so the biblical writer of the NWT stuck the vowels of Adonai between the tetragrammaton.
Scholars recognize that this "patched-up" name of God invented a mere 700 years ago, with the vowels from "ADONAI" inserted between the consonants "YHWH" and then further altered with the letters, "J" and "V" is incorrect.
http://www.macgregorministries.org/jehovahs_witnesses/gods_name.html