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In article <128.21.18.05.126218000@srcbs.org>, Sarah Kanary says...
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>> Now who _does_ know what they are talking about? Why, Hebrew philologists,
>> of
>> course.
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>Of course. And some are Jehovah's Christian Witnesses, accepted by their
>non-JW peers as authorities on the subject.

No, they are not. Who do you think you can fool with this transparent and false
claim?

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>>And they all agree: the JW 'pronunciation' is a gross _mispronunciation_
>> based on an even grosser misudnerstanding of the basics of reading the
>> Hebrew
>> Bible.
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>The "JW" pronunciation? You're kidding, right? The pronunciation "Jehovah"
>is not unique to Jehovah's Witnesses, by any means!

But only JWs insist on using it to the exclusion of all others today. Everyone
else recognizes how bad it is.

> Hebrew philologists who
>'know what they are talking about' do NOT call it "the JW pronunciation."

Why are you so sure of this?

>The man-made traditions about "reading the Hebrew Bible" are not what
>determines what God inspired to be in His Word.

And your JW tradition is CERTAINLY such a man-made tradition. You just cut away
the support for your own position, Sarah.

>>You are ignoring the distinction between kethib and qere, and reading the
>> kethib using the vowels of the qere!
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>> What a confused mess you make out of His holy name by doing this!
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>The 'confused mess' is those who replace the word altogether and make an
>issue of pronunciation in the first place.

No, it is not.

> I don't care if you pronounce it
>"Yahweh" "Jehovah" "Hayhowa" "Jayhova" etc. as long as it is the translation
>of YHWH instead of a *substitution*.

You miss the point: reading the qere instead of the kethib IS the correct
translation. Always. This is why all modern translations do exactly this with
all other instances of kethib/qere pairs. Those that fail to do this for YHWY
are simply inconsistent.

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>> And you are
>> the one who keeps trying to rrebut that "God is not a God of confusion".
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>He isn't. That is why the 'mispronunciation' argument should be applied
>consistently to all Hebrew names. Including YHSH.

Nonsense. That doesn't even make sense.


>>>Acts 15:14 shows that God is now taking out
>>>of the nations 'a people for His Name.'
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>>>Are all these nations going to pronounce His Name identically?
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>> Of course not. The _pious_ among them will not pronounce i