 Hi, everybody. We want to talk a little bit about the divine name. I created this video to go with the blog post about Jehovah and the Kind of odd sort of excitement that this particular Twitter post That sort of prompted me to do this Exhibited, you know when it comes to the divine name again, I'm not quite sure why that's an exciting thing But if you read the post you can get my speculation on that. I wanted to spend just a few minutes explaining why The divine name was not pointed was not vocalized by scribes as Jehovah That is not what we are supposed to pronounce When it comes to the divine name the scribes didn't do that vocalization to pronounce the divine name particular way Get back to that point in a moment. What I have here is I have Bratzman's brief introduction to Old Testament textual criticism and he's talking in this section about the kathieb kirei these are two terms that You know describe Certain scribal habits scribal techniques kathieb means what is written kirei means what is to be read So you have a number that there are a lot of these in the Hebrew Bible where a scribe would come across a particular word and He would in the margin take that word the consonants of that word and put in a different set of vowels Then what the manuscript he was copying had or you know, just put in vows of his own choosing now This was an arbitrary What the system meant they would put a little notation there and these have become known as the kathieb kirei Is that the Christ the scribe was saying here's what's in the text. Here's what's written But here's how this word should be read Vocalized and again, there are a lot of these Now one in particular as Bratzman is talking about you come to this footnote number seven and he says The result of this you know taking consonants of a word and then putting in different vows Really it creates a hybrid form a hybrid word the consonants the text represent the kathieb again What's written the vows represent the kirei that you know, it's actually in it So it's a theoretical form or an impossible form But the scribe is just trying to make some sort of comment or correction here And he has here such a hybrid spelling is behind the divine name anglicized as Jehovah and Made up of the consonants there your consonants are YHWH, Yod, Hey, Bob, Hey, and The vowels from Adonai So again, this is something everybody who does Hebrew Bible study knows that The divine name was actually one of these kathieb kirei here's what's it what's written and Then they would the scribe would take the consonants and he would put in these particular vows To the consonants the divine name now what I'm suggesting is the intent of that was not to have us pronounce Jehovah or an ancient Jew wouldn't hit this word in the text and say Jehovah What an ancient Jew would do is when they hit this text they would know that the vows came from Adonai and they would say Adonai Adonai was the substitute for the divine name now Let's come over here And I want to try to illustrate this in a different way here. You have the divine name and YHWH Reading right to left you at Hey Bob. Hey, and here are the consonants from or excuse me the vows of Adonai So you have four consonants here not vocalized And you've got this word here Adonai and what the scribes would do is they would take this vowel right here and this vowel and This vowel and the result of that would be Jehovah, okay, here's I'll just type it out Here's what it would look like when we switch my keyboard here This is what you would get Now you say well might it doesn't make a lot of sense because this vowel right here two dots vertical dots doesn't look like this one Here we have two vertical dots and then this little slash next to it That's because this is the way you correctly put The shiva, it's called the shiva half vow Underneath a yod. This is a half vow that goes under a guttural and this is a guttural letter the olive in Hebrew So it actually is consistent. We have half vow Then we have a vow and then we have long a vow right here So yeah, ho va would be your result and this is what has that the guy had the guy on Twitter You know excited like oh, I found look at this I found the divided name with these vows in it and all these manuscripts and that proves that the divine name is Jehovah and not Yahweh No, it doesn't Again, they would do this the scribes did this adding the vocalization not to teach You how to say it they didn't want the divine name pronounced at all They didn't want it pronounced. They would do this not to teach a pronunciation But they would do it to Signal to the reader that when you hit the divine name you say I don't I Because that's where the vows came from Again, they put the vows in To prevent people to alert people to not say the divine name Not to teach people to say that the divine name is yeah, ho va And that's the first problem Now we know this is the case from the Hebrew Bible for another reason The first syllable of the divine name is not yet as in Jehovah. How do we know that we know that from? passages like exodus 15 exodus 15 to you notice I have Lord selected here Again the in English Bibles the convention to convey the presence the divine name is to put things in all small caps There we have it Lord, and if we go down here to the Information column we will see that the divine name here is not why hw h It's just two consonants the yod and the hay and the hay has a dot in it to signify that that is a full consonant hay can also Serve as part of a vowel and the scribes would do that They put the dot in there to make sure that you knew it was a consonant So this very clearly is a long a vowel It is the same vowel we go back here as we have at the end of I don't know right here Gets put into the full constants. It is ah a vowel ah Hey, if we want to look at in the Hebrew Bible Exodus 15 to right there it is. Yeah That is the first syllable of The divine name. Yeah, we know it absolutely Categorically because the short form of the divine name. Yeah, the two consonant short form Has an a vowel Consistently in the Hebrew Bible It doesn't have yet. It's not yet like short for Jehovah. It's yeah Now if you want to know about the second syllable why it's there or at least that's the best guess yeah there yeah, where You can go to my website and put in the divine name And you'll get a full discussion of what how we know about the second syllable at least the best guess But what we do know for sure is that the divine name was not Jehovah Again the short form tells us otherwise and the whole reason for using the vocalization here Is otherwise one last point This is not You know as common as the full spelling. Let's just search for all the short forms. Yeah right here in the Hebrew Bible and Over here we get 26 times so 26 times in the Hebrew Bible You know for whatever reason the text has the short form. It is always yeah, it is never yeah I don't know why this is terribly important, but when I saw it on Twitter, it's like oh come on You know, you're not proving anything here why you know Why the concern or why the glee why the jubilation? to You think that you're coming across something that says the divine name isn't Yahweh, but it's Jehovah Why do we care about this stuff? I mean honestly If you're really interested if this person was really interested in protecting the divine name, you shouldn't be saying Jehovah either You know don't say Yahweh don't say Jehovah say I don't I or Hashem That was why the scribes did what they did Otherwise if you're just trying to win like an internet argument or something. Well, that's just a little silly