Post by ResLight on Dec 8, 2014 18:27:06 GMT -5
I just posted the below in response to some comments made regarding "Jehovah".
I am not with the Jehovah's Witnesses, but there are several translations that have endeavored to restore the Holy Name in the New Testament, based on the evidence that Jesus and the apostles did use that name, and that later copyists changed the name to forms of the Greek transliterated KURIOS, THEOS, and perhaps a few other words.
Did Jesus claim to come in the name of KURIOS (Greek transliterated)? Or did come in the name often spoken of as the tetragrammaton, and which is often presented in English as "Jehovah" (based on the Masoretic Hebrew) or "Yahweh" (based on some Greek forms)? (Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Psalm 118:26; see the American Standard Version)
www.biblestudytools.com/asv/psalms/118-26.html
www.biblestudytools.com/asv/deuteronomy/18.html
If Jesus joined the disobedient Jews in changing the name to other words, then it would have made him appear to be a false prophet. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob never authorized anyone to change His eternal name to other words, and since Jesus always performed the will of his God, I don't believe that he would have shown such a disrespect to his Father so as to change it to forms of the Greek often transliterated as "KURIOS" or "THEOS", as we find has been done in the extant NT Greek manuscripts.
The name, however, is not about there being any correct or true pronunciation of that name, for phonemes are not the same in all languages, and each language has its own way of handling names from other languages. The orginal tetragramaton (however it was originally pronounced in Hebrew), the English forms Jehovah and Yahweh, are actually all the same name, adopted and adpated through linguistic variations.
Similarly, regardless of how the name "Jesus" was originally pronounced in Hebrew (which no one on erath actually knows for a certainty), the English pronunication of Jesus, (or, Joshua), does not represent a different "name" from the original, regardless of whether they are pronounced the same or not.
No one on earth today really knows for a certainty what any name in original Hebrew sounded like, and even if such was known, the English phonemes may not be able to actually reproduce the same exact sounds.
See links to my studies regarding the Holy Name at:
jesus-rlbible.com/?page_id=2
(This is not a JW site, and does not support the JW organization)
I am not with the Jehovah's Witnesses, but there are several translations that have endeavored to restore the Holy Name in the New Testament, based on the evidence that Jesus and the apostles did use that name, and that later copyists changed the name to forms of the Greek transliterated KURIOS, THEOS, and perhaps a few other words.
Did Jesus claim to come in the name of KURIOS (Greek transliterated)? Or did come in the name often spoken of as the tetragrammaton, and which is often presented in English as "Jehovah" (based on the Masoretic Hebrew) or "Yahweh" (based on some Greek forms)? (Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Psalm 118:26; see the American Standard Version)
www.biblestudytools.com/asv/psalms/118-26.html
www.biblestudytools.com/asv/deuteronomy/18.html
If Jesus joined the disobedient Jews in changing the name to other words, then it would have made him appear to be a false prophet. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob never authorized anyone to change His eternal name to other words, and since Jesus always performed the will of his God, I don't believe that he would have shown such a disrespect to his Father so as to change it to forms of the Greek often transliterated as "KURIOS" or "THEOS", as we find has been done in the extant NT Greek manuscripts.
The name, however, is not about there being any correct or true pronunciation of that name, for phonemes are not the same in all languages, and each language has its own way of handling names from other languages. The orginal tetragramaton (however it was originally pronounced in Hebrew), the English forms Jehovah and Yahweh, are actually all the same name, adopted and adpated through linguistic variations.
Similarly, regardless of how the name "Jesus" was originally pronounced in Hebrew (which no one on erath actually knows for a certainty), the English pronunication of Jesus, (or, Joshua), does not represent a different "name" from the original, regardless of whether they are pronounced the same or not.
No one on earth today really knows for a certainty what any name in original Hebrew sounded like, and even if such was known, the English phonemes may not be able to actually reproduce the same exact sounds.
See links to my studies regarding the Holy Name at:
jesus-rlbible.com/?page_id=2
(This is not a JW site, and does not support the JW organization)
