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Subject: 1stChristiansDidUseGodsName
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unquiet1 21.06.10 - 05:54pm
During the days of Jesus' apostles in the 1st century C.E, Christian congregations were formed in many lands. The members of those congregations regularly met together to study the Scriptures.
Did those early Christians find God's name in their copies of the Scriptures....?.
Since Greek had become the international language, many congregations used the Greek Septuagint, a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures completed in the 2nd century B.C.E. Some scholars claim that from the time it was originally translated, the Septuagint had always replaced God's name with the title Kyrios, the Greek word for 'Lord'. But the facts show otherwise. *
unquiet1 21.06.10 - 05:56pm
Theres fragments illustrated in the files section are portions of the Greek Septuagint that date from the 1st century B.C.E. (i'l upload these fragments in the files section download them)
they clearly show God's name Jehovah represented in the Greek text by the four Hebrew letters.(YHWH in english letters) or the Tetragrammaton.
Professor George Howard wrote: ''we have three separate preChristian copies of the Greek Septuagint Bible and in not a single instance is the Tetragrammaton translated kyrios or for that matter translated AT ALL. We can now say with near certainty that it was a Jewish practice before, during, and after the New Testament period to write the divine name . . . Right into the Greek text of Scripture.'' (Biblical Archaeology Review) *
unquiet1 21.06.10 - 05:58pm
did Jesus' apostles and disciples use God's name in the inspired writings....?.
Professor Howard notes: ''When the Septuagint which the New Testament church used and quoted contained the Hebrew form of divine name, the New Testament writers no doubt included the Tetragrammaton in their quotations.''
we can safely conclude that the first Christians could read God's name both in their translations of the Hebrew Scriptures and in their copies of the Christian Greek Scriptures. *
