HaShem - Yahweh or Jehovah?

And done very nicely, may I say

Leaving aside Kamal Salibi`s claim (The Bible Came From Arabia), I find his discussion of the origins of Yahweh fascinating. Whether Yahweh came from a pantheon of gods or no, his explanation of onomastics and metathesis in Semitic languages has opened up new lines of thought in my fuzzy brain. Pity he wasn`t refuted on a more serious level instead of the knee-jerk assaults that took place.

Having studied with JWs for twelve months, I wouldn`t trust any conclusion they came up with. In spite of convincing them of the fallacy of a lot of points of their beliefs, the following week they would be on song again. And that figure of 25,000 sexual assaults just won`t go away.

The NWT is a poisoned well. It fails far more than two tests. While JWs may point out a scripture in a KJV version for comparison with the same in the NWT, they never tell you of the many key scriptures they have tampered with. In spite of the blurb inside the covers about consulting many bibles, it`s still the old dogma. Since the Governing Council says it`s God-guided, why then so many footnotes?

Hi, Arach, help me out here. If the Tetragrammaton is too sacred to pronounce, why are so many Jewish names and expressions using the short form 'Yah'? E.g. Elijah, Nehemiah,Netanyahu, Jehosaphat?

Did Yhwh develop from Yah? Here are some examples of early usage on inscriptions.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/negev/Names.html

Since the Masoretic Text sprang from the Academy at Jamnia (circa 100 A.D.) which selected one from a number of versions, can we assume that they had something approaching the original? While a lot of the Qumran Scrolls approximated the tradition of the later MT, many do not.