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Iollain

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I've heard that YHVH is pronounced almost like the sound of breathing.
 
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Iollain said:
Now how is that pronounced Oblio?
Hi: if your question is as I read it, the English letters would be more or less like this:
Biblos genesis Iesou Christou uiou Dab(v)id uiou
Ab(v)raam

(The) book of the beginnings/origin (generations) of Jesus the anointed, son of David, son of Abraham.

Perhaps that is helpful?

Regards
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That would sound a lot like Jesus?

Wonder what it sounded like when His parents said His name? Was it Yeshua or Iesou?
 
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Iollain said:
That would sound a lot like Jesus?

Wonder what it sounded like when His parents said His name? Was it Yeshua or Iesou?
Hi parents likely spoke Aramaic- not sure on Jesus' name in Aramaic.

Iesou in Greek is pronounced today ee aa soo, emphasis on the middle syllable. The pronunciation in ancient times is a matter of speculation. But Jesus, as we say it, or hay soos as the Spanish say it, both are reasonable approximations.

But as to how yshua would have been pronounced:
The story about 'shibboleth' in Judges 12 is a classic example of how pronunciations differ even within eras of time, let alone over time.
We do not know how y'shua would have been pronounced, exactly, but ee aa sou is very close to yaysou which begins to approximate yeah shoe or ye shue.
There is no way of knowing whether y'shua (actually, yeh hah shua) ended with an 'ah' sound, either. There were no vowel markings on the original Hebrew.

This name thing can get to the point where one could be convinced that imperfect pronunciation is tantamount to blasphemy. It can be idolatrous.

On the other hand, there is great beauty in the tongues that God has given men- especially in the Hebrew tongue.
Iakovos
 
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The idea that Jesus' name is not to be transliterated is silly. Names are often changed to more easily fit the common tongue of the location...ie., my brother goes as Michael, not Mykhailo, which is his "real" name. All this is quibbling over nothing.
 
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I have just finished reading this thread and may I say YIKES. I had to stop and look at the top of the screen once to see if it was locked.

I can understand that people get so worked up. This is a topic that has gotten to the very core of our beliefs. I think though it is missing a point. God sees our heart. He knows if someone is misspronouncing his name and when someone is calling out to an idol or something from Mythology. He sees us celebrating Easter and if it is done with the focus on the Reserection of Jesus Christ and he is pleased. Now if we are doing it and also our hearts are not putting the focus on the right thing then God knows. Easter is a celebration it is about new beginnings in Christ. We can debate the semantics but if we keep putting personal opinions into this discussion it will get us no where.
 
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Right, the GCA (tm) is responsible for all this blasphemy. Turn the record over folks, we've heard this scratched and popped movement N+1 too many times already.
One hundred percent of the earliest manuscripts we have discovered, use two or three Greek capital letters with a horizontal line over them, as a placeholder for Yahshua’s name.

Absurd, they were not placeholders for any Sacred Name, but rather abbreviations as is the Greek custom.



In XC,

Oblio
 
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I have just finished reading this thread and may I say YIKES. I had to stop and look at the top of the screen once to see if it was locked.

I can understand that people get so worked up. This is a topic that has gotten to the very core of our beliefs. I think though it is missing a point. God sees our heart. He knows if someone is misspronouncing his name and when someone is calling out to an idol or something from Mythology. He sees us celebrating Easter and if it is done with the focus on the Reserection of Jesus Christ and he is pleased. Now if we are doing it and also our hearts are not putting the focus on the right thing then God knows. Easter is a celebration it is about new beginnings in Christ. We can debate the semantics but if we keep putting personal opinions into this discussion it will get us no where.




I agree. So instead of assuming what Easter is a celebration of, why don't we research it and eliminate opinion. I does have a history and there is also a story of how it came into the church. If you want to know, the seed has been planted. I agree with much of your post, Becky. The difference is clear to Him. If someone has been misled, they are much better off then the one doing the misleading, if you know what I mean. Their fate is outlined with clarity.
 
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Oblio said:
Absurd, they were not placeholders for any Sacred Name, but rather abbreviations as is the Greek custom.
Oblio

“She turned around (strepho opiso – changed her thinking, came to rely, and reestablished her relationship with Him so that she could follow after Him) and said to Him in Hebrew (Hebraisti – from Hebrais, designating the Hebrew language in which the Old Covenant was written), ‘Rhabboni,’ which is to say, Teacher (didaskalos)(John 20:16)


Those with Yahshua “spoke Hebrew.” This could be one of the reasons we find the seven abbreviated placeholders for all of the divine titles and names in the Greek text: Yahshua/Iesous/Jesus, ‘Elohym/Theos/God, the ‘Edon/Kurios/Master, Ruach/Pneuma/Spirit, ‘Ab/Pater/Father, Ben/Hios/Son, and Messiah/Chrios/Christ. Those with Yahshua knew and used the actual Hebrew names. And so should we.
Why do you continue to speak of things you know nothing of?
 
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I'm not trying to say that Jesus is not a name we can call our Redeemer, but i would much rather call Him what His parents called Him, the name from the angel.
 
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Those with Yahshua knew and used the actual Hebrew names. And so should we.

And yet the author has to 'translate' for us ...

The Church has used the language of her people for 2000 years, not that of the Jews.

You have not yet told us why we are to ignore the names given to Jesus in the NT, but to revert to the fullfilled and surpassed tradition of the Jews ? Is it because of some misplaced Hebrewphilic tendency where you think we are Jews rather than Christians ?
 
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I agree. People of different languages are going to know Him by different translations of His name. It's still Jesus. Or Joshua if you prefer the Hebrew.
 
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