Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00136)

stevestubbs wrote:
> You are mistaken if you are insisting that "Jehovah" was a Jewish 
> deity. I read an article on this one time which explained where the 
> name came from but do not remember where it is. You may have read 
> too many copied of THE WATCHTOWER or some of that other Armstrong 
> crap. Jewish teachers whose work I read in times past do refer to 
> their deity as "Yahweh" and as "Hashem."
"Hashem", maybe. It means "the name", which is a term used in 
conversation to avoid using the name of God in vain. Yahweh? I can 
GUARANTEE that no Jewish scholar would use that name; there isn't even a 
"w" sound in Hebrew!!!! As far as anybody can tell, the YHVH name of God 
had no pronunciation; there were no associated vowels. The 
vowel-consonant combinations that have been transliterated into 
"Jehovah" or even "Yahweh" doesn't even EXIST in either Hebrew or Aramaic.

Bart