{"id":38574,"date":"2021-02-19T01:03:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T06:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=38574"},"modified":"2021-01-07T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T22:05:30","slug":"walter-moberlys-the-god-of-the-old-testament-part-thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2021\/02\/19\/walter-moberlys-the-god-of-the-old-testament-part-thirteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Moberly&#8217;s The God of the Old Testament&#8211; Part Thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2021\/01\/51ojmh9WtWL._SX332_BO1204203200_.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38473\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2021\/01\/51ojmh9WtWL._SX332_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"499\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Q. Your discussion of whether Christians should go with Yahweh or with \u2018the Lord\u2019 as in many translations raises a further dilemma. The reason many Christians prefer Yahweh, the personal name of the God of the OT, is because they do not want to denude the name of its Jewishness, in some sort of supersessionist fashion. Indeed, they want to stress the Jewishness of God\u2019s name as a way to counter the anti-Semitism of so much of the sad part of Christian history. What would you say to them on this matter?<\/p>\n<p>A. I don\u2019t think that respecting the Jewish dimensions of our Christian understanding of God and resisting anti-Semitism require use of the form \u201cYahweh\u201d. After all, observant Jews resist the use of this name as a matter of halakhic principle, and consistently use reverential alternatives. Let\u2019s respect Jewishness by following the Jewish lead!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. 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