Biblical Hebrew Forum

[mjoseph <mjoseph AT terminal.cz>]

Kirk Lowery wrote:

>The discussion of Jehovah's Witnesses and their theological views isn't 
>germane
>to our list, as Greg Stafford noted. Let's keep the discussion to how YHWH 
>was pronounced, understood, etc., and leave off discussing denominational
>motivations and distinctives, shall we?

With all due respect, I must disagree with Kirk's presentation. The 
question being discussed was, indeed, "how YHWH was pronounced, 
understood, etc." At one point, when it appeared that someone had been 
seriously led astray, someone simply asked if any of the material he had 
been reading was from the Jehovah's Witnesses, a legitimate question 
given the JW's predilection for insisting on one particular pronunciation 
of the Divine name. Analysis of source material is always germane to 
scholarly discussion. As to the material point, anyone who denies that 
JWs insist that (in English) Je-ho-vah is the only correct pronunciation 
of the Tetragrammaton has never spoken with a JW.

Mark Joseph (my real name ;-)