newredshoes: possum, "How embarrassing!" (Default)
my love, I am the speed of sound ([personal profile] newredshoes) wrote in [personal profile] adiva_calandia 2011-03-17 05:11 pm (UTC)

Pretty much. Also, only the priests in Temple times could pronounce the name of God, and even then they only did it once a year. I could get into a whole bunch of things about text and story and Judaism, but it is my lunch hour and it is 62 whole degrees so I'm heading outside! I'll shorthand that conversation and link to this.

Yeah, from what I can see, it's a Christian thing used to talk about Jewish/Old Testament stuff. (I mean, I don't think we have anything against it. It's not offensive. It's just... not ours? Plus there's no "w" sound in Hebrew. So, yeah!)

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