THE REVEALED NAME OF GOD YHWH (Part 6)

Conclusion on the vocalisation of the divine Name

“Outside the Masoretic vocalisation, there are several methods of finding the pronunciation of a name in the first century AD. However, biblical etymology (which is actually religious teaching), can not be used for this purpose.In the case of the Tetragrammaton, these three methods successively give the three pronunciations, Iaô (Witnesses method: comparison with the names of the Septuagint), Yehowah (onomastic method: comparison with theophoric names), Ihûa (method of reading letters), The examination of the historical context has made it possible to explain the discrepancy in Iaô, because at that time the Hebrew substitute YHW, or his Aramaic counterpart YW, was still widely used among the Jews. (…) Thus, there is a good agreement between the two pronunciations Yehowah and Ihûa, as satisfactory as * Yehudah and Ihuda (Judah), * Yésûa’ et Isûa’ (Jésus), etc. In view of this concordance, ** unanimity on vocalisation should have been easy to obtain!” (A History of the Name page 54).* The peculiarity of these two theophoric names is that they contain the entire tetragrammaton (YHWH). That’s why they are taken as examples of proven vocalisations. Therefore, their respective vocalisation makes it possible to know automatically how the Name was pronounced: Yehudah and Ihuda (Judah), Yésûa’ et Isûa’ (Jésus): YHWH = Iuah or Ieouah.** The conclusion of this book “A HISTORY OF THE DIVINE NAME”, confirms a vocalisation of the Name (Ioua), discovered hundreds of years ago by the Spanish monk Raymond Martin in his book (Pujio fidei (Dagger of the faith (1278))). He himself had drawn his sources on the writings of R. Moseh Ben Maymon (Maimonides), in “The Guide of the Lost” chapters 60–64, Part 1, relating to the Name. Another scholar named Porchetus de Salvaticis (1303), like Raymond Martin, used the same vocalisation of the Name.

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