From: Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:42 AM
To: Rolf ; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] God's name
Dear Rolf,
I will be able to answer this one question since it does not involve questions
of hermeneutics:
Why would the NT writers who quoted the Tanakh delete YHWH and use the
substitute KURIOS instead?
1. You are assuming that the authors of the NT "deleted" YHWH and substituted
KURIOS. There is no evidence to indicate that.
2. The NT quotes from the Tanakh almost invariably are from the LXX.
a. This use of the LXX to Greek-speaking assemblies found throughout the
Roman Empire would actually make sense.
b. The authors of the NT would have used the LXX and the Tanakh. The Book
of Hebrews uses the LXX exclusively.
c. The use of KURIOS by the authors of the NT to these Greek-speaking would
naturally follow the use made in the Greek-speaking synagogues as well.
3. Both Philo and Josephus, like the NT writers and the early Christians
(Clement of Alexandria, ca 100 AD) used the complete LXX which had
KURIOS.
4. Some of the older fragmetns of LXX do contain the Tetragrammaon, while other
manuscripts had blank spaces in the place of the the Tetragrammaton (cf.
Papyrus Rylands 458).
Thank you for the discussion.
Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
Hi Bryant:
After the exile, the 2nd temple authorities declared voicing the shem
haMeforash as a capital crime. Even the theophorics in names were truncated,
like Y...shua (Yeshua) instead of YEHO..shua, Yesha-Ya instead of Yesha
Yahu...and so on....to prevent accidentally voicing the name. As a result,
wherever the Tetragrammaton appeared in the text, lectors would say ADONAI
(Lord), instead of (my speculation on the pronunciation) YeHawa. The first
Jesus people were Jews, as were the New Testament authors and the tradition was
carried on. ADONAI is KYRIOS in Greek.
Jack Kilmon
Houston, TX
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