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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Who is Yahweh?

"The royal court and temple of Israel had promoted Yahweh as God of the entire cosmos, possessing all the positive qualities previously attributed to the other gods and goddesses. In modern Judaism, the name Yahweh is replaced with the word Adonai, meaning Lord and most scholars believe “Jehovah” to be a late (ca. 1100 CE) hybrid form derived by combining the Latin letters JHVH with the vowels of Adonai. Adonai — often translated as “LORD”, it is read in place of YHWH; Samaritans say Shema, which is Aramaic for “the [Divine] Name” and is the exact equivalent of the Hebrew “ha-Shem“, which Rabbinic Jews substitute for “Adonai” in a non-liturgical context such as everyday speech.
In Greek, Yahweh (Jehovah) is no other person than Adonis (Adonai in Hebrew) who in Greek mythology, is the god of beauty and desire, and is a central figure in various mystery religions.  The Greek Ἄδωνις (Greek pronunciation: [ˈadɔːnis]), Adōnis was a borrowing from the Semitic word adon, “lord” who I had established above is Adonai or Yahweh the God of Israel and Judah. The Syrian Adonis is Gauas or Aos, to Egyptian Osiris, to the Semitic Tammuz and Baal Hadad, to the Etruscan Atunis and the Phrygian Attis, all of whom are deities of rebirth and vegetation."

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