The Command That Two Thousand Years of Tradition Reversed

This is my name forever. This is my memorial to all generations.

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The Command at the Bush

When Moshe (Moses) stood at the burning bush and asked YHWH what he should tell Israel when they asked the name of the one who sent him, YHWH gave a two-part answer. The first part is the one the tradition preserved, I am that I am. Tell them I am has sent you.

The second part is the one the tradition buried.

Exodus 3:15, YHWH also said to Moshe:...    see more >>

What the Paleo-Hebrew Pictographs of YHWH Declare

Before the name was silenced, it was written. And what it wrote was this.

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Before the Square Script

The Hebrew alphabet used in printed Bibles today, the square, blocky letters familiar from Torah scrolls, is not the original Hebrew script. It is the Assyrian or Aramaic script, adopted during and after the Babylonian exile, around the sixth century BCE. Before that, the Hebrew scriptures were written in a much older form, Paleo-Hebrew, sometimes called Proto-Hebrew, a pictographic alphabet derived...    see more >>

Two Systems. One Name Caught Between Them.

Yeshua never confronted Moses. He confronted the fence around Moses.
The tradition has never named the difference.

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What a Fence Law Actually Is

The Torah of Moshe (Moses) contains 613 commandments, 248 positive and 365 negative. These are the written commands, given by YHWH, recorded in the five books. They constitute the covenant between YHWH and his people. They are not the fence.

The fence is something else entirely. In Hebrew it is called a gezerah, literally, a fence or hedge. A gezerah is a rabbinical decree, not a Torah command....    see more >>

Jamnia, the Post-Cross Consolidation,
and Why the Name Was Buried

There is the stated reason. And then there is the reason.

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Before the Silence

The Name Was Spoken

For most of the covenant history the name YHWH was spoken. Not casually. Not carelessly. But spoken. Moshe (Moses) spoke it to Pharaoh. The priests spoke it in blessing over Israel, the Aaronic blessing of Numbers 6:24-26 invoked the name three times in six verses. The prophets spoke it constantly. The psalms are saturated with it. The covenant history was narrated in it. The text bore it 6,828...    see more >>

What the Original Manuscripts Preserved
and What Was Done to Them

The oldest Septuagint manuscripts contain YHWH in Hebrew characters within Greek text. The name was there. Then it was removed. The evidence is not in dispute.

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What the Septuagint Was

The Septuagint, identified by the Roman numeral LXX, meaning seventy, is the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures produced beginning in the third century BCE in Alexandria, Egypt. The name comes from the tradition that seventy-two Jewish scholars translated the Torah into Greek at the request of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, completing the work in seventy-two days.

Whether the origin story is...    see more >>

A Reckoning

When a name goes silent, it does not go alone. Everything the name carried goes with it.

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Not a Word. A World.

The previous six documents in this series have traced the silencing of the name YHWH, from the fence law that prohibited its speaking, through the Paleo-Hebrew pictographs that declared its meaning, through the Septuagint manuscripts that preserved it and the Christian copyists who replaced it, through the Jewish consolidation at Jamnia and the Gentile project of de-Judaizing the gospel. The chain...    see more >>

What Happens When YHWH Is Spoken Again

The silence was not permanent. It never was. YHWH said the name was forever.
Forever does not expire.

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The Name Was Never Gone

The previous seven documents in this series have traced what happened to the name YHWH, how it was silenced by a fence law that contradicted the explicit command of Exodus 3:15, replaced in the Septuagint manuscripts by Christian copyists, flattened into Dominus by Jerome’s Vulgate, and received eagerly by a Gentile world that did not want its savior to be Jewish. The silence has been documented....    see more >>