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The Tetragram—Its History, Its Use In the New Testament, And Its Pronunciation Part One: The Tetragram in Hebrew Sources in BCE and the First Century CE
The Tetragram was not used as a substitute for yhwh before the end of the 1st century CE. The Tetragram, or iao, occur in all LXX frgments until 50 CE. There is strong evidence, both external and internal, that the Tetragram occurred in the NT autographs. Theophoric Names in the Hebrew Bible indicate that the Tetragram had three syllables, and the first two were ie-ho. Akkadian writing of Hebrew names indicates that the third syllable of the Tetragram was wa. So the three syllables are ye-ho-wa. The form ie-'u-wa is found on Akkadian tablets.
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Published January 1, 2018
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Rolf Furuli
16 books10 followersRolf Johan Furuli was a professor emeritus in Semitic languages at the University of Oslo until his retirement in 2011.
Furuli started his studies of New Babylonian chronology in 1984. He became a magister artium in 1995 and doctor artium in 2005. Based on his studies, Furuli has defended the religious views of Jehovah's Witnesses—of which Furuli is a member—including their view that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BC rather than the broadly recognised dating of its destruction in 587 BC. In a 2004 issue of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Lester L. Grabbe, professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull, said of Furuli's study: "Once again we have an amateur who wants to rewrite scholarship. ... F. shows little evidence of having put his theories to the test with specialists in Mesopotamian astronomy and Persian history."
In 2005, Furuli defended his doctoral thesis suggesting a new understanding of verbal system of Classical Hebrew. In a review of the thesis, professor Elisabeth R. Hayes of Wolfson College, Oxford, wrote: "While not all will agree with Furuli's conclusions regarding the status of the wayyiqtol as an imperfective form, his well-argued thesis contributes towards advancing methodology in Hebrew scholarship."
He has translated a number of documents from Semitic languages and Sumerian into Norwegian.
In 2020, Furuli published a book entitled My Beloved Religion — and the Governing Body in which he maintains that the core doctrines of the denomination are correct but challenges the authority of the Jehovah's Witnesses' leadership.
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Furuli started his studies of New Babylonian chronology in 1984. He became a magister artium in 1995 and doctor artium in 2005. Based on his studies, Furuli has defended the religious views of Jehovah's Witnesses—of which Furuli is a member—including their view that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BC rather than the broadly recognised dating of its destruction in 587 BC. In a 2004 issue of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Lester L. Grabbe, professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull, said of Furuli's study: "Once again we have an amateur who wants to rewrite scholarship. ... F. shows little evidence of having put his theories to the test with specialists in Mesopotamian astronomy and Persian history."
In 2005, Furuli defended his doctoral thesis suggesting a new understanding of verbal system of Classical Hebrew. In a review of the thesis, professor Elisabeth R. Hayes of Wolfson College, Oxford, wrote: "While not all will agree with Furuli's conclusions regarding the status of the wayyiqtol as an imperfective form, his well-argued thesis contributes towards advancing methodology in Hebrew scholarship."
He has translated a number of documents from Semitic languages and Sumerian into Norwegian.
In 2020, Furuli published a book entitled My Beloved Religion — and the Governing Body in which he maintains that the core doctrines of the denomination are correct but challenges the authority of the Jehovah's Witnesses' leadership.
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