Posted on 09/27/2013 7:11:44 AM PDT by NYer
I’m not sure what you mean by this. I meant that what you were calling a fact, was really merely an assertion. An assertion can be a fact, if it is established, but the assertion you made is not established, as I think I demonstrated.
“That when the texts were copied over by ancient Christians for public reading, the needlessly substituted “Kyrie” (”LORD”) for “YHWH” because the simply didn’t pick up on something which told them how to pronounce it?”
It could be the case, not that they missed something in the text, but that the general knowledge of the pronunciation, which hadn’t been recorded in the text, was lost. Scripture itself suggests this, and it suggests that God may have been the agent who caused the knowledge to be lost:
Zeph 3:9 -
“Then I will purify the lips of the peoples,
that all of them may call on the name of the Lord
and serve him shoulder to shoulder.”
If, in the future restoration of Israel that this prophecy is talking about, their lips need to be purified so that they may call on the name, it means that the lips of Israel must have become “impure”. This must have occurred sometime between when such calling was portrayed as common in the OT and the future restoration. I dare say we are in the interim period right now, and the uncertainty as to the pronunciation is evidence of that.
I once listened to an Old Testament course given by Amy-Jill Levine in which she speculated that “Yahweh!” may have been yelled in battle by Hebrews carrying the Ark.
I thought it interesting.
That is an interesting thought to ponder. Thanks for the post and ping.
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