[B-Greek] YHWH into Greek
Gene Gardner
g_gardner1234 at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 5 19:02:57 EST 2005
Rolf,
Thanks for your input. I found this list of early writers, and their understanding of the name from the Greek.
Diodorus Siculus writes Jao (I, 94);
Origin ("in Joh.", II, 1, in P.G., XIV, col. 105), Jao;
the Valentinian heretics (Ir., "Adv. Haer.", I, iv, 1, in P.G., VII, col. 481), Jao;
Irenaeus ("Adv. Haer.", II, xxxv, 3, in P. G., VII, col. 840), Jaoth;
Clement of Alexandria ("Strom.", V, 6, in P.G., IX, col. 60), Jaou;
Epiphanius ("Adv. Haer.", I, iii, 40, in P.G., XLI, col. 685), Ja or Jabe;
the Samaritans (Theodoret, in "Ex. quaest.", xv, in P. G., LXXX, col. 244), Jabe;
Pseudo-Jerome ("Breviarium in Pss.", in P.L., XXVI, 828), Jaho;
James of Edessa (cf.. Lamy, "La science catholique", 1891, p. 196), Jehjeh;
Porphyry (Eus., "Praep. evang", I, ix, in P.G., XXI, col. 72), Jeuo;
Jerome ("Ep. xxv ad Marcell.", in P. L., XXII, col. 429) speaks of certain ignorant Greek writers who transcribed the Hebrew Divine name II I II I.
It appears that their renderings vary a bit according to the above list. Do you have any understanding of why this might be?
Thanks,
Gene
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