Path: paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "NightBulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.bible Subject: Lost Linguistics and Loony Translation Theories Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 11:34:36 -0600 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: <639ca9d8$0$2259$1c4686b2@news.club.cc.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:00:10 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="d193e872d1e24a3037ee30f47146a21e52b80d1b"; logging-data="1158702"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.bible:654248 On 12/25/22 09:33, resl...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Friday, December 16, 2022 at 12:24:42 PM UTC-5, servant wrote: > >> In a stunning admission, Jehovah's witnesses tell us that the reason they >> continue to use "Jehovah" instead of the correct spelling Yahweh, is to be >> pleasing to man, not God. > > The spelling "Yahweh" was developed by taking the sounds attributed to a Greek form of the Holy Name as often transliterated as IAUE, and then blending those sound with four letters that represents God's Holy Name in ancient Hebrew and giving the He JOD the sound of "Y" and the Hebrew VAV the sound of "W", etc. Since ancient Hebrew had no written vowels, names could be transliterated from the ancient Hebrew, but the sounds of the Hebrew had to be adapted to sounds in each language. Additionally, the formation of Hebrew names in other languages often involved the usage of the ways names were expressed in each language, and thus names did vary in the way they were spelled and the way they sounded in each language. Each spelling and each sounding did not represent a different name, but rather only a linguistic variation on the original name. > > Jehovah, Iehouah, Yehowah, etc., are English transliterations of the Holy Name from one of the forms used in the Masoretic Hebrew text. Incorrect. The only form that exists in any of the Masoretic texts is JEHOVAH. There is no other pronunciation in the Masora. From the first Tiberian pointing manuscripts to the final Ben Asher codex, the pointings consistently indicate the pronunciation JEHOVAH, with the "J" sound, never with a "Y" sound. It is consistent for a 1500 years of manuscripts without any material changes. This is one of the most striking historical achievements of mankind, preserving an unbroken chain of ancient texts unaltered for so long. And the Romans and European Kabbalists piss all over it with their concocted fables about pronunciations being lost. > Each of these forms depends on which transliteration method is used. No one on earth today knows for a certainty how ancient Hebrew sounded; This is a complete lie and fabrication. We know exactly how the ancient Ezra period to first-century Hebrew sounds. The Masora preserved this knowledge perfectly. The debate was contrived by pagans and kabbalists who don't believe the word of God to begin with. They believe in their religious tradition over the word of God. So of course they invent slanders to cast doubt on the word. > all we have are various hypotheses developed by men. From the scriptural standpoint, each of these would not be a different "name", but rather they would all be variations of the same one name. This is nonsense. The vowel points are not "hypothesis." They were devised by the Levites to counter the Ashkenazi pagan converts who were trying to tamper with the text. We have the exact, original pronunciations in the Masoretic codex. The vowel points were invented by the school of the Levites who were the keepers of the scripture since time immemorial, from Ezra onward. That is the origin of the Masoretic text. All of these loony theories about the pronunciation of Hebrew being lost are nonsense. They have no foundation in any actual historical fact. The Romans and the Ashkenazi, both pagans, have been circulating their lunatic theories for centuries to impugn the word of God and fool men into doubting its veracity. -- Nightbulb | https://blog.nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch. If tacky red hats annoy Pharisees I want to buy hats for the whole town.