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\"\"The pivotal moment in the life of Moses as related in Exodus is his prophetic call at the bush which burned but was not consumed.\u00a0 Within this call narrative, an important and well known moment is the revelation to Moses of the name of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\u00a0 Despite how well known this moment is, there are a number of misnomers regarding the revelation of the name Yahweh, as well as precisely what this name means and indicates.\u00a0 This is true not only in terms of popular understanding but even major scholarly theories based on references to this name have recently lost most of their popularity if not been completely overturned.\u00a0 Archaeological finds have given further relevant evidence in recent years.\u00a0 Finally, there has been a general inability to separate later Rabbinic practice regarding the divine name from that of the Biblical period.<\/p>\n

Possibly the most critically important misunderstanding of Exodus 3:15 and the revelation of the name Yahweh to Moses is that this is the first time that this name was revealed to anyone.\u00a0 The text does not say this.\u00a0 In fact, the text implies precisely the opposite.\u00a0 At the point at which Moses asks for the name of the God whom he has encountered in the Angel of the Lord in the bush, he is not inquiring out of curiosity, but to use the name as evidence to bring the elders of the people of Israel to believe him concerning his call as a prophet.\u00a0 God has already identified himself clearly as the God of their fathers, of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.\u00a0 One of Moses’ many concerns about his mission to Egypt is that the elders of the people will not believe him based on his past history as a member of Pharaoh’s household and a murderer.\u00a0 It is in this circumstance that God gives to Moses the name to tell the elders, further explaining that giving this name will cause the elders of the people to believe him.\u00a0 This means that the elders of the tribes of Israel in Egypt already knew the name Yahweh and would recognize it.\u00a0 This name was being revealed to Moses.<\/p>\n

It is also worth noting in this context that Moses encounters this name while sojourning with the Midianites, the tribes of whom were descended from Ishmael and Esau.\u00a0 Moses father-in-law is a priest and not a pagan one as presented in the text.\u00a0 This means that he is himself already worshipping Yahweh, potentially even under that name.\u00a0 The earliest known records of the name ‘Yahweh’ as applied to a God comes from a pair of Egyptian inscriptions from the end of the 15th century BC listing a group of prisoners taken in battle.\u00a0 These prisoners, depicted as Semitic people and identified with the region of southern Canaan populated by the Edomites and Midianites, are identified ethnically as being from the ‘Shasu of Yahweh.’\u00a0 Given the format of this identification, Yahweh would be the God whom they worship.\u00a0 Further, the mountain of God at which Moses has this encounter is presented as having been a known site for the nomadic peoples before Moses’ experience there.\u00a0 Later poetic and prophetic depictions in the Hebrew scriptures will present Yahweh as having come into Canaan from the region of Edom (eg. Deut 33:1-2; Jdgs 5:4-5; Hab 3:3-7).\u00a0 All of this would seem to reflect that the sons of Abraham other than Jacob\/Israel and their descendants who had not gone to sojourn in Egypt had maintained patriarchal worship forms.<\/p>\n

Offered against this understanding is chiefly Exodus 6:2-3, which states that while the same God was worshipped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, “but according to my name Yahweh I was not known to them.”\u00a0 A woodenly literal interpretation of this verse became the basis for the documentary hypothesis in studies of the Pentateuch which at its base sought to separate the narrative portions of the Torah in particular into J (Yahwist) and E (Elohist) material.\u00a0 This literalist reading, however, isn’t born out by the way in which ‘knowing the name Yahweh’ is used elsewhere in Exodus and throughout the scriptures.\u00a0 First Samuel\/Kingdoms 3:7 states that the young Samuel, “did not yet know Yahweh nor had the Word of Yahweh revealed himself to him.”\u00a0 This despite the fact that the text has already stated that Samuel is serving (in worship) before Yahweh and increasing in favor with him (2:18, 26).\u00a0 It is clear that we are not being told that Samuel did not know the name ‘Yahweh’.\u00a0 Rather, Samuel would later come to know Yahweh in a different and unique way than he had been known to him previously.\u00a0 Repeatedly in the book of Exodus, God himself states that the people of Israel will know him as Yahweh after certain events such as the deliverance from Egypt, Mount Sinai, and the conquest of the land (Eg. Ex 6:7; 16:11-12).\u00a0 Coming to know the God of Israel as Yahweh in this context, then, refers not to learning the name, but rather relates to having an experience of God related to the meaning of that name.<\/p>\n

There are actually, technically, two different versions of the divine name given in Exodus 3:14-15.\u00a0 God’s first response to Moses is “I am who I am.”\u00a0 In Hebrew, this is ‘Ehyeh asher Ehyeh<\/em>.’\u00a0 Moses is told to tell the sons of Israel that ‘Ehyeh’ has sent him.\u00a0 Despite the parity here between the two forms of the name, for the remainder of the Hebrew scriptures, the name ‘Yahweh’ will come to vastly predominate (possible exceptions include 2 Sam 7:6; Ps 50:21; Hos 1:9).\u00a0 He is then immediately told in nearly exactly the same verbiage that he is to tell the elders of Israel that ‘Yahweh’ has sent him.\u00a0 Both of these names are forms of the Hebrew verb ‘to be’, ‘<\/em>hayah‘<\/em>.\u00a0 The form ‘Ehyeh<\/em>‘ is the first person, hence the translation ‘I am’.\u00a0 ‘Yahweh’, on the other hand, is in the third person and would be more accurately ‘He is’.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, interpreters will make an issue of tense.\u00a0 It should be noted, however, that Biblical Hebrew does not have a tense system as such.\u00a0 There are two verbal forms which indicate an action which is complete or an action which is open-ended.\u00a0 The former is generally translated as past or present tense in English.\u00a0 The latter, which is the form used in both forms of the divine name, is translated generally as present or future.\u00a0 It is, therefore, possible to translate these names as ‘I will be’ or ‘He will be’.\u00a0 Particularly in the first-person form, the same form is used in Exodus 3:12, a few verses earlier, when God tells Moses that he will be with him.\u00a0 A far simpler explanation of the verb form is that God’s existence and whatever else the name predicates of him is ongoing and unchanging.<\/p>\n

The name ‘Yahweh’ is in the third person and according to its form, what is called in Biblical Hebrew the Hiphil binyan, has a causative significance.\u00a0 A literal translation would then be ‘He who causes to be’.\u00a0 The most obvious significance of this reading is that it makes Yahweh’s role as creator central to his identity in worship.\u00a0 Creation as such is not the sole emphasis, however.\u00a0 St. Paul identifies God as the one who “calls into existence those things which do not exist” (Rom 4″:17).\u00a0 This includes not only the days of creation but the nation of Israel (Is 43:1).\u00a0 This includes not only initial creation, but according to St. Paul and Isaiah is linked directly to the resurrection, reclaiming, and return.\u00a0 As the prayers of the Divine Liturgy say, “Thou it was who didst bring us from nothingness into being and when we had fallen away did not cease to do all things until thou hadst raised us up to heaven and endowed us with thy kingdom which is to come.”\u00a0 Does this prayer refer to the creation and the expulsion of Adam from paradise?\u00a0 Does it refer to Abraham’s seed and slavery in Egypt?\u00a0 Does it refer to the creation of Israel and their exile?\u00a0 The answer is yes.\u00a0 It is then in this sense that Israel, through the experience of the exodus and the conquest of the land, comes to know their God as Yahweh, the one who brings things into being.<\/p>\n

One factor which leads to the misunderstanding of the meaning of the divine name is that it is not adequately translated into English.\u00a0 In fact, it is rarely translated at all.\u00a0 Scribal practice already by the Second Temple period, grounded in concern for the third commandment, had preserved the name Yahweh within the Hebrew text of the scriptures, but had moved away from pronouncing it in public reading, replacing it with a reference to simply ‘the name.’\u00a0 In translations, including Greek translations of the Hebrew scriptures, the name was, in the lion’s share of cases, replaced with the word ‘lord’.\u00a0 This practice has continued to be followed by most English translations which translate, even when working from Hebrew texts, the name Yahweh in the Old Testament with ‘Lord’, often in all caps.\u00a0 This creates a certain ambiguity in New Testament usage of the term ‘kyrios’.\u00a0 In Greek, this word can simply be used to mean ‘sir’.\u00a0 It can also, however, be used to refer to Yahweh, the God of Israel.\u00a0 This ambiguity makes the repeated testimony of the New Testament authors that Jesus is Lord ambiguous enough for modern scholars to avoid recognizing this as an assertion of Christ’s deity.<\/p>\n

There are, however, places where Greek connections are more clear.\u00a0 The Greek translation tradition of the Hebrew scriptures rendered Exodus 3:14’s self-identification as ‘ego <\/em>eimi o on<\/em>‘.\u00a0 A very literal rendering of this phrase in English would be ‘I am He who is’.\u00a0 Each half of this statement in Greek was used, as was the first person form of the Hebrew name, in a minority of cases in the remainder of the Greek Old Testament and related traditions including the works of Philo of Alexandria and the Apocalypse of St. John (1:4, 8; 4:8).\u00a0 The participle ‘o on<\/em>‘, ‘He who is’ or ‘the existing one’, is the form in which the divine name is likely most well known to Orthodox Christians.\u00a0 These three Greek letters appear within the cruciform nimbus of Christ in Orthodox iconography to identify him as Yahweh.\u00a0 It is also used verbally in the longer dismissal of daily services.\u00a0 The phrase, “Christ our God, the existing one….” or “He who is, Christ our true God…” is translating the phrase ‘o on<\/em>‘, and could therefore more literally be rendered, “Christ our God, Yahweh, is blessed always, now and ever and unto ages of ages.”<\/p>\n

The first portion of this phrase, ‘ego <\/em>eimi’ or ‘I am’, is also of significance as it is used in regard to the person of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 In significant portions of the Greek Old Testament tradition, this Greek phrased is used to indicate the name Yahweh, particularly concentrated in the prophecy of Isaiah (eg. Deut 32:39; Is 41:4; 43:10; 46:4; 48:12; 51:12; 52:6).\u00a0 At several crucial points in St. John’s Gospel, this phrasing is directly attributed to the person of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Obviously, connecting the use of the phrase ‘I am’, which most of us use countless times a day, to an explicit claim of deity must be justified.\u00a0 In the first place, Biblical Greek does not require a subject for the verb ‘to be’.\u00a0 Nor, in fact, does it require the verb if the subject is present.\u00a0 This means that the phrasing, “I [am] a man” or “[I] am a man” would read in the same way in Greek and be more efficient.\u00a0 They are, in fact, more common.\u00a0 Secondly, even if all of the cases in which St. John uses the phrase with an object, i.e. “I am [something]” are excluded to allow only the cases in which ‘I am’ occurs with no following identifier, there are still several attributed to Christ (John 8:24, 28, 58; 13:19; 18:5, 6, 8).\u00a0 Many of these instances are treated as blasphemy by the hearers, making the intent further clear.\u00a0 This identification is not only to proclaim Christ’s divine identity, but also to make clear that the name taught by Christ is another name for the same God worshipped throughout the ages.<\/p>\n

In ancient times, God’s people came to know him as God Most High presiding over the divine council, as God All-Power and Almighty.\u00a0 Through the Exodus and the creation of Israel, they came to know him as Yahweh who brings into being that which was not.\u00a0 Through the incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, they have come to know him by another name, “the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Matt 28:19).\u00a0 It is not a coincidence that after revealing this new name to his disciples and apostles, just as he had revealed ‘Yahweh’ to Moses, Christ gives the promise “I am with you always” just as he had promised to Moses in Exodus 3:12 as he returned to Egypt to deliver the people.\u00a0 So he sends out the apostles to preach and baptize.\u00a0 Just as Israel worshipped by invoking the name Yahweh, so now the church calls upon the Trinitarian name of the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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