Path: paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "NightBulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.bible,alt.religion.christian Subject: Re: The jehovah witness nwt "translation" Followup-To: alt.bible Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:28:57 -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: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 05:27:24 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="d2ecf279f9db57a3ecf3e5985e9bfed2f945d15a"; logging-data="2843688"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <639ca9d8$0$2259$1c4686b2@news.club.cc.cmu.edu> Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.bible:653962 alt.religion.christian:795847 On 12/16/22 11:24, servant wrote: > The most obvious proof that Jehovah's Witnesses spell YHWH wrong as > "Jehovah" is the fact that the letter "J" doesn't even exist in Hebrew, > Greek, Latin. Further, the English language did not have a letter "J" > before about 1500 AD. This is old wives tail nonsense. The letter J did not invent the "J" sound. The "J" sound was present in English from most ancient times. It was represented by the letter "I" until a printer started adding a stylized hook to differentiate the sound. The letter "W" also didn't exist in early English bibles, so we would have to childishly assume that there was no "W" sound either. The letter "W" was invented AFTER the letter "J". So by this logic there was no "W" sound. But this is nonsense. The "W" sound was represented by the letter "U" and the couplet "OE", just as the "J" sound was represented by the letter "I". In ancient English JEHOVAH was spelled IEHOVA but was prounounced the same as JEHOVAH. In ancient English JESUS was spelled IESUS but was pronounced the same as JESUS. The "I" had the same "DZ" sound as modern "J". The letter J did exist in both Hebrew and Greek. It was the letter JOT. Jesus even mentioned the letter when he said, "... not one JOT or TITTLE shall pass from the law ..." The ancient Greek and ancient Sinaiatic Hebrew used the same alphabet. Both languages had the "J" sound. This nonsense about the lack of a letter "J" meaning no "J" sound is just dumb. The tetragrammaton sounds like JEHOVAH. On that point the JW cult is correct. A broken clock is right twice per day. -- Nightbulb | https://blog.nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch. If tacky red hats annoy Pharisees I want to buy hats for the whole town.