The use of “G-d” was also reinforced in the larger (i.e., Christian) society by 18th- and 19th-century printing conventions that bowdlerized swear words, including the name of the Deity, especially when used in oaths. You would see expressions like “G-d d–n me” or “what in h–l”.
Similarly, characters in Thomas Hardy stories swear “by 'od!”. This, I understand, is the author’s faithful recording of a spoken convention of the time, not a printer’s censoring.
(Did everyone understand post #17?)
It was my understanding that it is not known what the proper vowels are to be inserted into “YHWH” and that the vowels in “Yahweh” are inserted based on the vowels in another word (“Adonai”?). Larry Gonick, in The Cartoon History of the Universe suggests it could even have been “Yahuwahu.”
Course he’s mostly joking, but the point is, I thought, that no one really knows how “YHWH” was supposed to be pronounced.
And the odd convention on network television to bleep only the “god” part of “god damn it!”
Looked it back up. It’s a semikook page; not obviously Jewish [/or] Christian in orientation. The writer apparently wanted to foil search requests for “Jesus”, “Christ”, “God”, etc.
By god’s wounds and god’s body, I didn’t know that “bloody” had something to do with religion.
It By-Our-Lady does!
Noone Special How do you get Hebrew out of a standard pc?
RE YHWH
If you’re thinking of the above as the Name, you’re wrong. The Hebrew characters are yod hey vav hey. Which lead to the Latinization Jehovah. Like Jacob, Jerusalem and many others, the Name starts with a consonant y in Hebrew.
The letter vav can be a vowel or a consonant. A dot above the vav makes it a long o. A dot to the left of the vav makes it an ‘eww’. No dot means it’s a consonant equivalent to the letter V. The classical Hebrew of the Torah has no vowels written below the letters, and no dots (this also means that certain letters can be s/sh, k/chc, p/f). At some point after folks switched to writing vowels and dots, a convention for the vowels and dots of the Name arose. The vav has a vowel (an ‘ah’) below it and a dot above it. This means it is simultaneously “oh” and “vah”. The proper pronunciation is not “ovah” as in Jehovah. There is no proper pronunciation. It is impossible to pronounce as written.
Re Saying The Name
Sure, it was said in Temple services. The Temple also housed the Ark Of The Covenant. Neither was anything the average Jew was supposed to mess around with. Jewish folklore tells of the Bal Shem Tov, the keeper of the Good Name. His mastery of Kabbalah and his knowledge of the proper pronunciation of the Name gave him wondrous powers. In other stories, the maharal of Prague used his knowledge of the Name to create a golem. In another tale, a man begs a Bal Shem Tov to teach him the Name. But though the student is rightous, he lacks the spiritual purity necessary. This interferes with the pronunciation of the Name. Instead of causing holy wonders, it summons demons who eat the man’s soul. In actual history, we have Shabati Zevi. He proclaimed himself the messiah. Jews wondered if he was or if he was a charlatan or a lunatic. When Zevi repeatedly said the Name in public, the majority of Jews were sure it was definitely door number two or door number three.
Re Substitutions
It’s important to remember Jewish tradition. Two ancient traditions are relevant here. One, that Hebrew is a special and holy language. Two, that the words of the torah must be absolutely unchanged. If a single stroke or dot is missing, the torah is unfinished. If a single letter is wrong, the whole torah is flawed and worthless. So to many Jews, replacing a letter with a hyphen or a word with a letter and an apostrophe changes it from the Name of the Lord who brought us forth from Egypt to just a little placeholder so we know what to say.
How I get arabic, greek, and hebrew letters() is to go to MS Word,כצצצףף press Alt-I, open up Symbols, and select the hebrew (or whatever) subset, then cut 'n paste.
I have Hebrew installed as an additional keyboard language, I switch to it using Alt-Shift… but ultimately it gets translated into Unicode ( ‘&#<code>;’ ) for each character – “א” is code 1488, etc…
… which is probably too much except if you’re going to input a few letters, so Scott Plaid’s suggestion may help more.
Actually, I’m pretty sure that’s not true – YHWH is vowelized to conform to the pronounciation that is used today – “A-do-na-y”; so the initial Y has an “ah” under it, the ‘H’ has a dot to the top and left of it (“Holam Haser”) – which is a “short ‘oh’” designation On the Heh; and the W has an “ah” under it. So “Ya-ho-Va” would be the way the Name of God would be pronounced as written today.
I totally agree this has nothing to do with how The Name would have been pronounced by the ancients…
Is it just me, or does anyone else see something like that and think “How utterly asinine?”. If there is a god of any kind, the Jews and others who use the g-d form apparently think it’s better to address him/her/it as “Hey, you” rather than by name.
Nothing constructive to add. Just can’t stop giggling from the insane thought that you’re all going to be stoned to death by one who denies being the messiah and his mother.
Jesus came upon a small crowd who had surrounded a young woman they believed to be an adulteress. They were preparing to stone her to death.
To calm the situation, Jesus said: “Whoever is without sin among you, let them cast the first stone.”
Suddenly, an old lady at the back of the crowd picked up a huge rock and lobbed it at the young woman, nearly hitting her. Before the crowd can react, Jesus, quite exasperated, turned to the woman and said: “That wasn’t an ORDER, Mother!”
http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Features/2005/laugh_judgment_results.html
Given that everybody was constantly begging for His attention, my guess would be something like: "Yeah?Wha’?"