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Name, Divine

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Author(s): Gieschen, Charles A.
There are many titles for the God of Israel in the Old Testament, but only one personal name. His four-letter name,  יהוה  (hereafter YHWH), is found frequently (6,823 times), including in the primary confession, “Hear, O Israel, YHWH our God, YHWH is one” (Deut 6:4). The personal name YHWH is typically referred to as the divine name, the holy name, the name, or the tetragrammaton (“four-letter writing”); it is often transliterated in scholarly literature with vowels as Yahweh. The prominence of the divine na…
Date: 2024-01-19