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  • From: "Sesamo m." <sesamox AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Just a clarification about YHWH and JWs
  • Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:29:02 +0200

Dear list members,

Some weeks ago, during the discussion about the pronunciation of YHWH, Jehovah's witnesses were mentioned among other groups. This is just to clarify that we (since I'm one of JWs) don't have any doctrine related to the Hebrew pronunciation. We use the form "Jehovah" just because it is the traditional form, the most common and most widely used in a lot of languages in the world, not because we supposedly believe YeHoWaH was the original pronunciation. Our publications have never claim that, and the issue of what could have been the original pronunciation is just a question of curiosity for us. If a form like YaHWeH, YaHo or whatever could be proved it didn't have an impact in our set of beliefs.
A little off-topic, but since we've been alluded I decided to clear this up.

Sergio






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