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- From: "Rev. Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>
- To: "Rolf" <rolf.furuli AT sf-nett.no>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] God's name
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:42:26 -0700
Dear Rolf,
I will be able to answer this one question since it does not 
involve questions of hermeneutics: 
Why would the NT writers who quoted the Tanakh delete YHWH and 
use the substitute KURIOS  instead? 
1. You are assuming that the authors of the NT "deleted" 
YHWH and substituted KURIOS. There is no evidence to 
        indicate that.
2. The NT quotes from the Tanakh almost invariably are 
from the LXX.
    a. This use of the LXX to Greek-speaking 
assemblies found throughout the Roman Empire would actually make 
        sense.
    b. The authors of the NT would have used 
the LXX and the Tanakh. The Book of Hebrews uses the LXX 
                
        exclusively.
    c. The use of KURIOS by the authors of the 
NT to these Greek-speaking would naturally follow the use made in 
        the Greek-speaking synagogues as 
well.
3. Both Philo and Josephus, like the NT writers and the early 
Christians (Clement of Alexandria, ca 100 AD) used     
    the complete LXX which had KURIOS.
4. Some of the older fragmetns of LXX do contain the 
Tetragrammaon, while other manuscripts had blank spaces     
in the place of the the Tetragrammaton (cf. Papyrus Rylands 458).
Thank you for the discussion.
Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
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            Re: [b-hebrew] God's name,
            Rolf, 06/17/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] God's name, Yigal Levin, 06/17/2013
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            Re: [b-hebrew] God's name,
            Rolf, 06/17/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] God's name, Dave Washburn, 06/17/2013
 
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            Re: [b-hebrew] God's name,
            Rolf, 06/18/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] God's name, Rev. Bryant J. Williams III, 06/18/2013
 
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            Re: [b-hebrew] God's name,
            Rolf, 06/18/2013
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        Re: [b-hebrew] God's name,
        Rev. Bryant J. Williams III, 06/18/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] God's name, Jack Kilmon, 06/18/2013
 
 
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        Re: [b-hebrew] God's name,
        Rev. Bryant J. Williams III, 06/18/2013
 
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