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Iaoue - See technical note on viewing special characters.
- Iaoue is an English transliteration of the Greek name "ιαουε".
ιαουε is found in the writings of Clement of Alexandria - In its Article Church Fathers and Magic Papyri The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1901-1906. says:
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- It was in connection with magic that the Tetragrammaton was introduced into the magic papyri and, in all probability, into the writings of the Church Fathers, these two sources containing the following forms, written in Greek letters:
- (1) "Iaoouee," "Iaoue," "Iabe,";
- (2) "Iao," "Iaho," "Iae";
- (3) "Aia";
- (4) "Ia."
- It is evident that
- (1) represents יהוה
- (2) יהו
- (3) אהיה
- (4) יה
- The three forms quoted under (1) are merely three ways of writing the same word, though "Iabe" is designated as the Samaritan pronunciation.
- There are external and internal grounds for this assumption; for the very agreement of the Jewish, Christian, heathen, and Gnostic statements proves that they undoubtedly give the actual pronunciation (Stade's "Zeitschrift," iii. 298; Dalman, l.c. p. 41; Deissmann, "Bibelstudien," pp. 1-20; Blau, l.c. p. 133).
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- New Bible Dictionary (1962) says:
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- The pronounciation Yahweh is indicated by transliterations of the name into Greek in early Christian literature, in the form iaoue (Clement of Alexandria) or iabe (Theodoret; by this time Gk. b had the pronunciation of v)
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- In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition
- (New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1910-11),
- vol. 15, pp. 312, in the Article JEHOVAH).
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- The early Christian scholars, who inquired what was the true name of the God of the Old Testament, had therefore no great difficulty in getting the information they sought. Clement of Alexandria (d. c. 212) says that it was pronounced ιαουε. Epiphanies (d. 404), who was born in Palestine and spent a considerable part of his life there, gives IaBe (one cod. Iave). Theodoret (d. c. 457), born in Antioch, writes that the Samaritans pronounced the name IaBe (in another passage, IaBai), the Jews Aia.
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- In the above quote the number 5 appears to the right of ιαουε indicating that additional information can be found at Footnote #5 at the bottom of the page.
- Footnote #5 reads:
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- Strom. v.6. Variants: ια ουε, ια ουαι; cod. L. ιαου.
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- For a full discussion of various transliterations (Jehovah, Yahweh) of the Tetragrammaton in English, and the discussion on its original pronunciation, see Tetragrammaton. This article only focuses on one aspect.
Yahweh and יַהְוֶה and ιαουε The English spelling (Yahweh) and the corresponding scholarly reconstructed vowelized Hebrew spelling יַהְוֶה (see picture to the right) appeared in scholarly sources in the early and mid 1800s. Smiths 1863 A Dictionary of the Bible states that Wilhelm Gesenius 1786-1842 was familiar with this Hebrew spelling "יַהְוֶה". In fact Smith writes that Gesenius adopted this form. 1. The Hebrew spelling "יַהְוֶה" can also be found in the Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon, where it is called "the proper name of the God of Israel". The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 6 1972 states: >>> Instances of the divine name written in Greek letters, such as Iao (equivalent to Yaho), Iabe (known to the Samaritans, Theodoret century A.D., and Epiphanius), Iaoue, Iaouai (Clement of Alexandria century), and Iae also favor the form Yahweh (NWDB, 453). >>> Technical note Technical note: To view the Hebrew and Greek Font used in this article properly, it is recommended that this article be printed out! Footnotes 1.YahwehfromSmithsBibleDictionarylowres.JPG This image, which contains text about Gesenius, can be enlarged for easier viewing by clicking on an icon that appears in the lower right of the image. External Links * Discussion of Clement of Alexandria's understanding of the tetragrammaton
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