Yahweh Thesis

Compared to the English language, which has been estimated to have over one million words, Biblical Hebrew has a very limited vocabulary with about 3,100 words. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq/total_words.htm) With so few words to go by, often times Hebrew words have several literal meanings. David G. Hagopian, The Genesis Debate : Three Views on the Days of Creation (Crux Press, November 2004), 125. One word

When Solomon completed the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem, the city solidified its position as the center of Israel’s religious, political and economic world. The Temple housed the ark of the covenant, which was associated with the physical presence of God, and it was placed in close proximity to the palace of Jerusalem’s richest king to date, King Solomon. Through the establishment of the temple, Jerusalem experienced a powerful sense of spirituality, protection by their God and national independence. When it was destroyed in 586 BCE, many Jerusalemites felt that, like the presence of God, their meaning in life had diminished. The Temple would be rebuilt, razed to the ground and built up again several more times after this.

2. Prime location, on the crescent of The Palm Jumeirah, known as the 8th Wonder of the World.

Jeremiah was born around 650 B.C. The son of Hilkiah, a priest from the town of Anathoth, in a small village located North of Jerusalem in the territory of Benjamin.The meaning of his name is “Yahweh Exalts” and “Yahweh Throws”. His career is believed to have started when he was around twenty or twenty three years of age. The book begins with an account of Jeremiah was called to be a prophet even before Jeremiah was born Yahweh had a plan or purpose for him to fulfill. There is much information known about Jeremiah’s personal life as a prophet than any other in the Old Testament because he has give glimpses into his thinking, concerns, and frustrations.

Jerusalem had always been known to the Christians as an ideal city, or a holy city- the walls had been touched by Christ

Above the Holy Ark, is the star of David, which is from 1845 and is the oldest representation of the star of David in an architectural building in the country. This is also the location of the Ten Commandments.

Joshua was the son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim. His name means “the Lord is salvation.” He was born in Egypt around 1530 B.C. He went through the Passover and the Exodus.

In Genesis 22, God called Abraham to the land of Moriah and tested him by asking him to offer his only son, Isaac, as a burnt offering. Abraham demonstrated his fear and faith by obeying God’s command, and therefore God provided him with ram as sacrifice and promised him, “your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies, and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves” (Genesis 22:17). Abraham called that place in Jerusalem “The Lord Will Provide,” which set it apart from other generic places Israelites has been to, and God’s promise triggered their occupation of this particular space. After King David conquered Jerusalem and made it the capital of Israel a century later, he brought the Ark of the Covenant into the city, showing his loyalty to God. God therefore sent words to him, “And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may live in their own place, and be disturbed no more” (2 Samuel 7:9). As God confirmed his blessings on the Israelites, Jerusalem is differentiated as the singular space where God reigns over the kingdom, and where both the monarch and people would be

Tweed states in his article “Space” that religious spaces are “differentiated”, “kinetic” and “interrelated”. In other words, they are intangible locales, only sensorially experienced, that stand out in some ways, that are able to be shaped by the natural and cultural influences, and thus that are not perfectly sacred and detached from secular objects. Correspondingly in the Hebrew Bible, the city Jerusalem is indeed portrayed as such a special, changing and holy but also worldly religious space that God was present in the city and He unprecedentedly approved King David’s supplication of building a temple for Him, that it could still undergo a period of desolation given the high recognition and thus the prosperity it once owned, and that some cultural impacts from a certain locale could be found on the First Temple in the city.

They said this because it was against their faith to utter his full name out loud. They spelled his name with missing letters like YHWH. To avoid writing his Yahweh’s name, they wrote God with a missing letter “O” eg “G_d”. Also, no one is allowed to picture Yahweh in any form. The Hebrews would pray to their God every night.

The word LORD, spelled with all captial letters is the name of God, Jehovah. For more information about God's name go to the article titled "LORD, Hebrew Tetragrammaton." In prophecy, John the baptist was to prepare the world to receive God Almighty. In reality, John prepared the world for Jesus, preaching the message of repentance. John did not make a mistake, he knew that Jesus was Jehovah God joining the human race.

The Temple and the Tabernacle: A Study of God’s Dwelling Places from Genesis to Revelation is a strong theological resource revealing the significance of

God, the creator of all is known in Hebrew as Elohim, meaning strength or power. He is also known as YHVH translated

The name of Asherah means "she who walks in the sea," occurs forty-times within nine books of the Old Testament. In the past it was customary for a chief deity or god to have their own distinctive name and the majority of the time his female companion or the chief female deity had the same name or a variant of that name. Additionally, a female deity may have variants or different ways to spell her name such as Athirat, Ashtart, Ashtate, Ashtoreth, Ashratum, Ashira, Ashratu, and Istar are all variants of Asherah.

Hosea obeyed the will of God, went to court Gomer, and they were married. At first it was heaven on earth. Hosea loved this girl. You can't read this prophecy without seeing that. They must have been wonderfully happy together, and then they had their first child. It was a boy, as God had said. Bear in mind that it was the result of adultery on Gomer's part. Hosea's heart was filled to bursting, and he went to God for the name of this boy. "What should we name the boy?" To his surprise, God picked the name Jezreel. Now Jezreel means "cast-away" and was a name of shame in Israel. He represented the hypocrisy and adultery of Israel, and he was a foreshadowing of what was to come in divine discipline