Divine name in NT

Wes Williams wes.williams at echostar.com
Tue Sep 29 13:22:14 EDT 1998


On 09/28/98, "kmesserschmidt at canberra.com" wrote:

<snip>
> > Scriptures. Professor George Howard goes on to say: "When the Hebrew
> > form for the divine name was eliminated in favor of Greek substitutes
> > in the Septuagint, it was eliminated also from the New Testament
> > quotations of the Septuagint. . . . Before long the divine name was
> > lost to the Gentile church except insofar as it was reflected in the
> > contracted surrogates or remembered by scholars."
> 
> Can someone confirm or deny this? Or how would I search for it
> in the archives?

Kevin,

There was a discussion on the subject beginning with the post at:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/97-08/0136.html.

As an aside, I corresponded with Professor Brown about his 1977 JBL 
article. He said he still stands by his conclusions.

Sincerely,
Wes Williams



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