Reveals the real, whole name of God and its place within each of us • Explains how none of the God-names commonly used in the Bible is God’s real name • Shows how the real name of God unites all religions from both West and East • Includes spiritual techniques, prayers, poems, and meditative chants to bring each of us into deep, personal, intimate, living relationship with God Of the many names of God commonly used in the Bible and other sacred literature, none is God’s real name. Every God-name, including YHWH, reflects only one of God’s many aspects, such as the loving creator, the militaristic authoritarian, or the all-knowing judge. None embodies the wholeness, the totality, the full Essence of God. Who then are we to speak to when we seek God? If you can’t truly know something until you know its name, how can we truly know God? The culmination of years of translation research and etymological investigation, Rabbi Wayne Dosick’s work digs through many layers of presumption and deeply ingrained beliefs to reveal the real name of God hiding in plain sight in the Bible: Anochi. He shows how this sacred name unites all religions--both of the West and the East. The name Anochi enables us to finally meet the whole, complete, real God--both the grand God of the vast universe and the God of breath, soul, and heart who dwells within each of us. This in-depth exploration of God’s name includes spiritual techniques, poems, guided prayers, and meditative chants to bring each of us into personal, intimate, and purposeful relationship with God. By knowing the real name of God, we can affirm the connection to the Divine at the core of our being. We can touch the face of God that resides deep within us all.
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
What’s in a name? The Names of God: 52 Bible Studies for Individuals and Groups offers a unique approach to Bible study by presenting a 52-week study focusing on the names and titles of God and of Jesus, one designed to help readers experience the Lord in fresh and deeper ways. . By studying such rich and varied names as Adonay, El Shadday, Abba, Yeshua, Lamb of God, and Prince of Peace, readers will encounter a God who is utterly holy, powerful, surprising, merciful, and loving. Each week’s study includes: • Background information to help readers understand the name • A key Scripture passage in which the name was first or most significantly revealed • A series of questions for individual or group study • A list of Bible passages for further reflection Based on Praying the Names of God and Praying the Names of Jesus but containing additional questions for reflection and study, this unique Bible study is designed to help individuals and groups explore the most important of God’s names and titles as they are revealed in the Bible. Also included is a helpful pronunciation guide to the Names of God in Ancient Hebrew and Koine Greek.
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Truth in Translation is a critical study of Biblical translation, assessing the accuracy of nine English versions of the New Testament in wide use today. By looking at passages where theological investment is at a premium, the author demonstrates that many versions deviate from accurate translation under the pressure of theological bias.
An anonymous caller tells a detective in a small Oregon town that a woman has just bitten off a man's finger. But the man is not the victim, the caller says. The woman is. She's being held against her will by a group of faith-healing fanatics who are trying to cure her depression with violent exorcisms. The detective rescues her, but she is afraid to press charges against the people in her church. Then the detective gets an even more ominous message: Children in the church have been dying mysteriously for years, and now several more are in immediate peril, facing blindness, disability, and death. Unwilling to stand by and allow more children to suffer, the anonymous caller -- a church insider -- risks everything to work with three detectives and a lone prosecutor to fight faith-based child abuse, and to change the laws that protect its perpetrators. They are joined by a mother who'd suffered a faith-healing tragedy herself, and afterwards dedicated her life to saving others from the same fate. Masterfully written by author Cameron Stauth, In the Name of God tells the true story of their heroic mission, which resulted in a historic series of sensational trials that exposed the darkest secret of American fundamentalism, and revealed the shameful political deals that have allowed thousands of children to die at the hands of their own parents -- legally. Though the battle against faith-healing abuse continues around the country, the victory in Oregon has lit the path to a better future, in which no child need die because of a parent's beliefs.
Why is there so much confusion about the name of God? What is the true name of God anyway and does it matter to address God by that name? I choose to stick with what the scriptures say and use terms like God, Creator, Most High, Heavenly Father. confusion arises when people teach doctrines outside of what the scriptures speak or a lack of understanding. The True name of the Most High as rendered in english alphabetical characters is YHWH (He is or I Am ALL Self Existent or Eternal) . This name was replaced by the word LORD in our english translations. (see Strong's #3068) The four hebrew characters that make up the name is known as the Tetragrammaton which is Greek meaning "four letters." The four Hebrew characters (YHWH in english) that make up the name of the Most High cannot be disputed. The dispute comes with the pronunciation of the name. With this, many spell the name as they pronounce it. From YHWH various pronunciations have developed like YaHaWaH (Yaw-ha-wa), Yahweh (ya-way), Yahuwah (Ya-hoo-wa) and this is where the conflict arises. Lets go to the scriptures to get an understanding of how the scholars that put the Bible together understood how the name was to be rendered into English. Ex. 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. We must understand that the letter J did not come to exist in the alphabet until after the King James bible was completed. If you examine a true 1611 KJV you will not find the letter J within words. Instead the letter I is used seeing there was no J used at the time of the translation. Knowing this is important because the names Jehovah, Jesus, Joshua etc .. would not be found spelled in such a fashion that uses the letter J. Therefore Jehovah could not be a name of the Most High used among the Israelites. But we do know the letter "J" was used to replace the hebrew "Y" character and the letter "V" replaced the hebrew "W." Now we can get a better understanding of how the name Jehovah was misrendered in english. In the hebrew alphabet there is no letter or character J, E, O, V, U, F therefore to correctly render "Jehovah" in english, it would be Yahawah or Yahuwah. (Some believe the "HA" character in the middle of the name gives a softer sound as Hu (hoo) than the sharp sounding "HA' therefore they spell it Ya-Hu-Wah but the hebrew name of the Most High is YHWH the four hebrew characters nontheless. Lets examine the Israelite historian Flavious Josephus' account of the name. Works of Josephus- Wars of he Jews, Book 5, Par 7 "A mitre also of fine linen encompassed his head, which was tied by a blue ribbon, about which there was another golden crown, in which was engraven the sacred name [of God]: it consists of four vowels. The four vowels mentioned are the four hebrew characters (hebrew vowels) that make up the name of YHWH that was engraved within the Levite Priest's mitre or turban. Ex 39:30-31 The name YHWH appears all throughout scripture but translated as LORD in the english translations (as supposed to keep the true name YHWH from being polluted or blasphemed) and was revealed to Moses after the Israelites left Egypt. Lets read again Ex. 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH (YHWH) was I not known to them. The Most High clearly states that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob only knew him by "God Almighty" (al shadday) and not by his name YHWH, but they still feared and worshipped the Most High. This shows that if the Most High demands we address him by his name YHWH only would he not have revealed this to Abraham the Father of the covenant? Lets also examine. Ex. 2:23 ¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
God in Translation offers a substantial, extraordinarily broad survey of ancient attitudes toward deities, from the Late Bronze Age through ancient Israel and into the New Testament. Looking closely at relevant biblical texts and at their cultural contexts, Mark S. Smith demonstrates that the biblical attitude toward deities of other cultures is not uniformly negative, as is commonly supposed. He traces the historical development of Israel's "one-god worldview, " linking it to the rise of the surrounding Mesopotamian empires. Smith's study also produces evidence undermining a common modern assumption among historians of religion that polytheism is tolerant while monotheism is prone to intolerance and violence.
