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  • From: "Edward Andrews" <edandrews AT adelphia.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Tetragrammaton
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:00:09 -0400

David P Donnelly:

What I am saying is Drusius introduced the idea that Galatinus invented the pronunciation of Jehovah in 1520. Further Drusius was not known for good scholarship. Moreover, he had apparently forgotten his own discovery of Porchetus' work (1303) and the use of Jehovah long before Galatinus, when shortly before his death he published the view that the pronunciation Jehovah was invented by Galatinus in 1520.


Cappel was convinced that the Masoretic text could not be trusted, this being the basis for his attack on the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah. It was not long until all the scholars fell in with Cappel's reasoning. Thus, Cappel simply spread what Drusius started.


Further, Bottcher stated in 1866 that the pronunciation of Jehovah was unknown until 1520, when introduced by Galatinus. The rest of the list I posted simply repeated and gave impetus to this misinformation.

----- Original Message ----- From: "David P Donnelly" <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:17 PM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Tetragrammaton


Edward Andrews wrote:


I am tracking the pronunciation "Jehovah." In all of this, what was
started by Drusius and spread by Capella as a historical fact and is
still very much apart of the scholarly community today?


Dave writes,

The editors of the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon write:
The pronunciation Jehovah was unknown until 1520 when it was introduced
by Galatinus; but it was contested by Le Mercier, J. Drusius, and L.
Capellus, as against grammatical and historical propriety.
On page 311 of the article "JEHOVAH (YAHWEH)" in the Encyclopedia
Britannica of 1911, the editors write:
The form Jehovah was used in the 16th century by many authors, both
Catholic and Protestant, and in the 17th was zealously defended by
Fuller, Gataker [1574-1654], Leusden and others, against the criticisms
of such scholars as Drusius, Cappellus and the elder Buxtorf.
I would recommend that you take a look at the Wikipedia Article:Yahweh,
which covers both the pronunciation "Jehovah" and the pronunciation
"Yahweh" in considerable detail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh

Check out Section # 2 and section # 2.1 which go into considerable detail
about the scholarly criticism of the name "Jehovah", which started as
early as the first half of the 17th century.

Sections # 5 through sections # 10 discuss Gesenius's scholarly
reconstruction YaH:WeH, which he proposed in the early 19th century,
after scholars had rejected the legitimacy of the vowel points of
"(Y)Jehovah"


Dave Donnelly

------Original Message------
From: "Edward Andrews" <edandrews AT adelphia.net>
Sent: Tue Aug 22 10:18:18 EDT 2006
Subject: [b-hebrew] Tetragrammaton

To All:


I have chosen not to engage the scholars of this website, but have chosen
to follow the arguments, discussions and helpful sources.
However, at this time, I would like to pose a question that concerns the
history of the Tetragrammaton.
I have studied some things through and wish to list some persons and
publications without providing the findings, to see what will come about
naturally.
I am tracking the pronunciation "Jehovah." In all of this, what was
started by Drusius and spread by Capella as a historical fact and is
still very much apart of the scholarly community today?


Peter Galatin [Petrus Galatinus; Pietro Colonna Galatino]

Paulus Fagius [Paul Buechelin] (1504-1549)

Johann Reuchlin [Capito]

Drusius (Van Der Driesche; Johann Clemens] (155-1616)

Ludovicus Capellus (Louis Cappel] (1585-1658)

Cappel' Critica Sacra (1634)

Botcher 1866

The Oxford Gesenius (1892-100)

Buhl (1899)

James Hastings (1899)

Joseph B. Rotherham (1902) The Emphasized Bible

Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

The Jewish Encyclopedia (1907)


Edward Andrews

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