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Vol 2 Ep 10 - The Religion of Canaan and Phoenicia

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The Origin of the Name Jehovah

The awe was first written in phoenician script by using four letters. The valve sounds that need to be inserted to make the name vocal have been a matter for much debate. After the babylonian destruction of jerusalem in the sixth century b c e, jewish people accepted away as their universal god. Due to his name, away being deemed to be too divine to be uttered. But if we break down the name into its four letter form, which is actually directly called the tetrogramaton, we can turn y h, w h into the phonetic sounds, e, ha, a he. So ye h h transformed into je h e h. And this is the origin

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