It's All The Same Dude Sittin' In The Clouds.
Here's something fun to do if you are feeling bold. Go find a Christian and/or a Jew and tell him or her that they worship Allah.
After they stop yelling, try and explain how it's the same Dude in charge, the same cast of characters, the same setting, and more or less the same script, but with different producers. Go for it--see what they say.
After they stop yelling, try and explain how it's the same Dude in charge, the same cast of characters, the same setting, and more or less the same script, but with different producers. Go for it--see what they say.
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I recently attended a lecture by Calvin Luther Martin a retired professor of history from Rutgers. The lecture was ostensibly on ancient cave art. Dr. Martin has spent two years living with Eskimos in Alaska (apparently there they call themselves Eskimo not Inuit). He has also spent a year living with Navaho on the Four Corners Reserve in the US (AZ, NM, CO, UT). His specialty is historical anthropology focusing on the beliefs and mythology of native peoples.
In his lecture Dr. Martin pointed out that the name given to God in the Old Testamant was Jehovah or Yahweh. Dr. Martin went out to say that modern scholars now believe the name was not mentioned by scholars in biblical times because it was beyond comprehension and therefore beyond the labeling associated with language.
Then Dr. Martin did something remarkable that moved the name into the realm of native people prior to Judaism and Christianity. He pronounced YAH WEH, YAW WEH, YAW WEH, very quickly and breathily, just as if breathing hard or chanting as you would imagine native people doing around a camp fire. Suddenly one realizes that the name YAW WEH is so fundamental that it comes actually from breath itself, the breath of life.
It was a very striking moment.
The later nomenclature assigned to God, Allah, Jehovah, etc. was a more modern creation by cultures refining and therefore closing down the possibilities of myths.
Dr. Martin’s fifth book will look at the topic.
Below you can find a scholarly definition and explanation
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08329a.htm
Jehovah (Yahweh) (Jahveh)
The proper name of God in the Old Testament; hence the Jews called it the name by excellence, the great name, the only name, the glorious and terrible name, the hidden and mysterious name, the name of the substance, the proper name, and most frequently shem hammephorash, i.e. the explicit or the separated name, though the precise meaning of this last expression is a matter of discussion (cf. Buxtorf, "Lexicon", Basle, 1639, col. 2432 sqq.).
Jehovah occurs more frequently than any other Divine name. The Concordances of Furst ("Vet. Test. Concordantiae", Leipzig, 1840) and Mandelkern ("Vet. Test. Concordantiae", Leipzig, 1896) do not exactly agree as to the number of its occurrences; but in round numbers it is found in the Old Testament 6000 times, either alone or in conjunction with another Divine name. The Septuagint and the Vulgate render the name generally by "Lord" (Kyrios, Dominus), a translation of Adonai—usually substituted for Jehovah in reading.
I. PRONUNCIATION OF JEHOVAH
The Fathers and the Rabbinic writers agree in representing Jehovah as an ineffable name. As to the Fathers, we only need draw attention to the following expressions: onoma arreton, aphraston, alekton, aphthegkton, anekphoneton, aporreton kai hrethenai me dynamenon, mystikon. Leusden could not induce a certain Jew, in spite of his poverty, to pronounce the real name of God, though he held out the most alluring promises. The Jew's compliance with Leusden's wishes would not indeed have been of any real advantage to the latter; for the modern Jews are as uncertain of the real pronunciation of the Sacred name as their Christian contemporaries. According to a Rabbinic tradition the real pronunciation of Jehovah ceased to be used at the time of Simeon the Just, who was, according to Maimonides, a contemporary of Alexander the Great. At any rate, it appears that the name was no longer pronounced after the destruction of the Temple.
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