02-25-2018, 11:42 AM
I'm interested in the name change YHWH --> YHSWH 3300 years ago.
What baffles me is the fact that first use of five letter name (pentagrammaton) is known no earlier than in the year 1494, when Johannes Reuchlin wrote De verbo mirifico (The Miraculous Word). The author invented this pentagrammaton for practising Christian Cabala. The letter "shin" was inserted in the Old Testament name of God to give it a Christian symbolism - it could be vocalised as the name of Jesus (Yehoshuah). Other reason is the ability to pronounce it - in the Jewish tradition it was forbidden to pronounce the name of God (tetragrammaton YHWH is not the full name). Jesus is the spoken Word of God, "the Word made flesh" ...
What baffles me is the fact that first use of five letter name (pentagrammaton) is known no earlier than in the year 1494, when Johannes Reuchlin wrote De verbo mirifico (The Miraculous Word). The author invented this pentagrammaton for practising Christian Cabala. The letter "shin" was inserted in the Old Testament name of God to give it a Christian symbolism - it could be vocalised as the name of Jesus (Yehoshuah). Other reason is the ability to pronounce it - in the Jewish tradition it was forbidden to pronounce the name of God (tetragrammaton YHWH is not the full name). Jesus is the spoken Word of God, "the Word made flesh" ...
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