Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
The tension around the use of the name Jehovah is rooted in historical claims, notably the assertion that it was a 16th-century invention by Peter Galatin. However, historical records reveal that the name was known and used centuries before Galatin's time. Influential figures like Paulus Fagius and Louis Cappel played significant roles in perpetuating this claim, shaping scholarly perspectives.
The truth of the matter is that the invention of the letters of the English alphabet neither proves nor disproves the pronunciation of the Hebrew name יהוה (YHWH). Although some of the letters in the English alphabet were invented in later centuries, the sounds that they represent existed from the earliest times. Only the symbols used to represent the sounds changed.
Sephardic Hebrew pronunciation, used by Sephardic Jews, preserves the original "j" sound of the Hebrew letter ×™ (jod). This pronunciation is considered by scholars as the most accurate representation of ancient Hebrew. Modern translators substituting the Father's personal name with titles like "LORD" or "GOD" weakens the Word of God.
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UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, all major English Bible translations were based on the premise that the goal of Bible translation is to take the reader as close as possible to the words that the biblical authors actually wrote.
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While I cannot address this subject at length, it needs to be addressed, to lay the foundation for you, the reader. My approach here is to assume that you have no knowledge of Bible translation issues, or the process of translating from the Original Languages (OL) of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, into what we call the Receptor Language (RL), such as English. However, this does not mean that we will pass over all the elements of this subject because some of them are essential to the issues of literal translation.
