Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Gene Gardner <g_gardner1234 AT yahoo.com>]

Below is a quote from an article, that is posted in
the online Catholic Encyclopedia that may be of
interest.

To take up the ancient writers: 

Diodorus Siculus writes Jao (I, 94); 

Irenaeus ("Adv. Haer.", II, xxxv, 3, in P. G., VII,
col. 840), Jaoth; 

the Valentinian heretics (Ir., "Adv. Haer.", I, iv, 1,
in P.G., VII, col. 481), Jao;
 
Clement of Alexandria ("Strom.", V, 6, in P.G., IX,
col. 60), Jaou; 

Origin ("in Joh.", II, 1, in P.G., XIV, col. 105),
Jao;
 
Porphyry (Eus., "Praep. evang", I, ix, in P.G., XXI,
col. 72), Jeuo; 

Epiphanius ("Adv. Haer.", I, iii, 40, in P.G., XLI,
col. 685), Ja or Jabe; 

Pseudo-Jerome ("Breviarium in Pss.", in P.L., XXVI,
828), Jaho; 

the Samaritans (Theodoret, in "Ex. quaest.", xv, in P.
G., LXXX, col. 244), Jabe; 

James of Edessa (cf.. Lamy, "La science catholique",
1891, p. 196), Jehjeh; 

Jerome ("Ep. xxv ad Marcell.", in P. L., XXII, col.
429) speaks of certain ignorant Greek writers who
transcribed the Hebrew Divine name II I II I.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08329a.htm


                
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