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  • From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • To: "Yaacov Yeretz" <ierets AT yahoo.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Questions about YHWH
  • Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:20:10 -0500


----- Original Message ----- From: "Yaacov Yeretz" <ierets AT yahoo.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Questions about YHWH


Shalom to everybody on this list!

Excuse me if I'm not exactly on track with this groups
exact topic with my
questions. They are related to the fact that in
several postings I read the
assumption, that the Tetragrammaton's public use
(always?) was more or less
banned:

I tend to believe that there once was a time, when the
name YHVH was
proclaimed publicly, for example during Yom Kippur
services in the first and
second Temple period. Am I wrong with this? Even to
Yeshua the name was
known according to what he says in John 17:6 and
17:26, or have I got it
wrong?

And if I'm right: Could anybody tell me, when the
pronunciation of the
Tetragrammaton became banned? Could it be that it
happened in the lifetime
of Yeshua?

No. The pronounciation of the Shem haMeforash became banned in the beginning of the 2nd temple period. By the way, that was YHWH...no vav. TheYahwist theophoric may give us a clue.
Other than Yehoshua which I believe is a "back naming" I cannot help but notice that all of the Judges; Othniel, Ehud, Deborah, Gideon, Abimelech, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, Samson, Samuel..and the monarchs until the mid 9th century BCE; Saul, David, Solomon, Jeroboam (which is also a helluva lotta champagne), Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri Omri, Ahab...not a Yaho/Yeho to be found. Suddenly after Ahab we begin to see the Yahwist theophoric in 853 BCE Ahaziah, Jehoram, Jehu, Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Zechariah, Pekahiah..and at the same mid 9th century in Judah Jehoshaphhat,
Jehoram, Ahaziah, Athaliah, Joash, Amaziah, Uzziah..everybody is on the Yaho bandwagon. So suddenly mid 9th century BCE the Yahwist theophoric comes into use.

Does 850ish BCE coincide with the Yahwist author? What happens around 850 BCE that brings the theophoric into use? The first person that seems to kick off the yahu theophoric is Eliyahu (Elijah)..."Yahweh is God."

Jack






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