// uhh which version of the jerusalem bible you write of?Jerusalem Bible did change YAHWEH to Lord too
I think from Ex 20:7,I can’t remember where scripture says to not say the name “Yahweh” and to use “Lord” instead; is this an example of scripture following an unwritten tradition? Also–where does it say for the Jewish High Priest to say “Yahweh” only once a year in the Holy of Holies?–another possible example of the people of God following an unwritten tradition?
The Name.
…The pronunciation of the written Name was used only by the priests in the Temple when blessing the people (Num. vi. 22-27); outside the Temple they used the title “Adonai” (Soṭah vii. 6; p. 38a). The high priest mentioned the Name on Yom Kippur ten times (Tosef., Yoma, ii.; 39b). R. Johanan said the sages delivered to their disciples the key to the Name once in every Sabbatical year. The sages quoted, “This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations” (Ex. iii. 15). …
The restriction upon communicating the Name proper probably originated in Oriental etiquette; in the East even a teacher was not called by name. For naming his master Elisha, Gehazi was punished with leprosy (II Kings viii. 5; Sanh. 100a). After the death of the high priest Simeon the Righteous, forty years prior to the destruction of the Temple, the priests ceased to pronounce the Name (Yoma39b). From that time the pronunciation of the Name was prohibited. “Whoever pronounces the Name forfeits his portion in the future world” (Sanh. xi. 1). Hananiah ben Ṭeradion was punished for teaching his disciples the pronunciation of the Name ('Ab. Zarah 17b). It appears that a majority of the priests in the last days of the Temple were unworthy to pronounce the Name, and a combination of the letters or of the equivalents of the letters constituting the Name was employed by the priests in the Temple. Thus the Twelve-Lettered Name was substituted, …
Actually, taking the Name in vain would be more like using it to swear an oath that so-and-so was true, when in fact it was a lie.I think from Ex 20:7,
“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain…”
To some, if you don’t know how to vowel correctly the Hebrew יהוה then you could mispronounce the name (for example, Yahweh Yehovah etc). The (possible) mispronunciation would be taking his name in vain, breaking this commandment, and not to be done.
so, mispronunciation = name in vain
not sure about this
Technically it is not a ‘stretching’ of the Law; when the Tanakh was translated in Aramaic, the Hebrew word for ‘blaspheme’ (naqav) in Leviticus 24:16, which says that “Anyone who blasphemes the name of YHWH must be put to death” was interpreted as ‘pronounce’ in Aramaic (since Aramaic was closely related to Hebrew and, while sharing many vocabulary words in common, contained some words that sounded the same or similar but had other meanings, i.e. linguistic false friends).I have no proof for this, but I believe that the total prohibition of pronouncing the name JHVH was a “stretch” on the part of the post-Exilic Jews, taking the commandment against “taking the name of JHVH your God in vain” and stretching it until it became a commandment against using the name at all. It’s not the only time they “stretched” a commandment; the commandment against boiling a young goat in its mother’s milk was stretched to the point where an observant Jew can’t go to McDonalds and have a cheeseburger.
DaveBj
and 24:16 in the LXX,Technically it is not a ‘stretching’ of the Law; when the Tanakh was translated in Aramaic, the Hebrew word for ‘blaspheme’ (naqav) in Leviticus 24:16, which says that “Anyone who blasphemes the name of YHWH must be put to death” was interpreted as ‘pronounce’ in Aramaic (since Aramaic was closely related to Hebrew and, while sharing many vocabulary words in common, contained some words that sounded the same or similar but had other meanings, i.e. linguistic false friends).
Thus, this verse began to be (mis)understood to mean, “Anyone who pronounces the name of YHWH must be put to death.”
Very interesting–arigatoo gozaimashita.Technically it is not a ‘stretching’ of the Law; when the Tanakh was translated in Aramaic, the Hebrew word for ‘blaspheme’ (naqav) in Leviticus 24:16, which says that “Anyone who blasphemes the name of YHWH must be put to death” was interpreted as ‘pronounce’ in Aramaic (since Aramaic was closely related to Hebrew and, while sharing many vocabulary words in common, contained some words that sounded the same or similar but had other meanings, i.e. linguistic false friends).
Thus, this verse began to be (mis)understood to mean, “Anyone who pronounces the name of YHWH must be put to death.”