home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.mythology      Greek mythology... or fans of Hercules      1,939 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 1,287 of 1,939   
   SolomonW to Martin Edwards   
   Re: Dionysus and Adonis   
   28 Jun 12 19:58:19   
   
   XPost: soc.culture.greek, soc.history.ancient, alt.pagan   
   XPost: alt.magick   
   From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:39:56 +0100, Martin Edwards wrote:   
      
   >  and the Tetragrammaton was never pronounced "Jehovah" in any   
   > language except English,   
      
   It seems to be a bit more complex then that   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah   
      
   Still I think that this is true.   
      
      
   In A Dictionary of the Bible (1863), William Robertson Smith summarized   
   these discourses, concluding that "whatever, therefore, be the true   
   pronunciation of the word, there can be little doubt that it is not   
   Jehovah".   
      
   > and is now so pronounced by few even there.   
      
   It is considered by most to refer to God by this name shows your ignorance.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca