Reader question: I've started reading the Aramaic English New Testament by Andrew Gabriel Roth, and noticed that YHWH's name has been inserted. Although the ancient Greek NT manuscripts do NOT contain Elohim's Personal Name, I was hoping you could tell me whether the Shlichim of Y'shua really added His Father's Name or not in the original autographs, because Revelation 22:18 just came to mind and I am hoping the AENT didn't "add to or subtract from" God's Word. Clarification please!

Excellent question, and the answer is: Several passages in Genesis reveal that YHWH (Yahweh) provided His Name:

Genesis 4: 26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. That is when people began to call upon the name of YHWH.

Genesis 12: 8 He (Avram) left that place, went to the hill east of Beit-El and pitched his tent. With Beit-El to the west and 'Ai to the east, he built an altar there and called on the name of YHWH.

Genesis 21: 33 Avraham planted a tamarisk tree in Be'er-Sheva, and there he called on the name of YHWH, the everlasting God.

YHWH's Name was never "God" or "ADONAI" or anything else; those were simply titles....

We are then told in Exodus that He provided His Name to Moses:

Exodus 3:13-15 Moshe said to God, "Look, when I appear before the people of Isra'el and say to them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you'; and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what am I to tell them?" God said to Moshe, "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh [I am/will be what I am/will be]," and added, "Here is what to say to the people of Isra'el: 'Ehyeh [I Am or I Will Be] has sent me to you.'" God said further to Moshe, "Say this to the people of Isra'el: 'Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh [ADONAI], the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz'chak and the God of Ya'akov, has sent me to you.'This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered generation after generation.

YHWH in Hebrew is comprised of the letters Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey: God Himself revealed His Name to us, and man has had acess to it all along. Ironically, traditional Jews refuse to utter his Name for fear of mispronouncing it or misspelling it, etc, and on the other end of the spectrum, you'll never hear the Father's Name in most Christian churches as they are all concentrating on "Jesus" whom they think came to replace the Father and abolish all his original Divine instructions/teachings....

The Aramaic English New Testament (AENT) (from which the contents of this article were borrowed) was a direct translation of the Khabouris Codex which was written in ALL Aramaic - and includes the correct Name of YHWH. The following explanation on the correct pronunciation of YHWH's Name was borrowed from an appendix in the AENT:

YHWH (yud-hey-vav-hey, pronounced YAH - WEH) is the Name of the Most High Elohim. To vocalize the Name YHWH, breathe in slowly while saying "YAH", then breathe out while saying "WEH". Netzari followers of Mashiyach never subscribed to the Rabbinic ban against vocalizing the Name of YHWH. Neither was the pronunciation of the Name lost within Jewish culture. When Torah was translated into Greek, observant Jewish scribes preserved the Name of YHWH by writing "YHWH" with Hebrew characters in the Septuagint. Isaiah 52:5-6 states that the Name of YHWH is "continually every day blasphemed, therefore YHWH’s people shall know His name." This prophecy is nested in Scripture that reveals the "arm of YHWH" who is Mashiyach; therefore, it is Mashiyach Y’shua who brought the knowledge of the Name of YHWH to the world. (Footnote to Matthew 1:20, AENT)

A traditional Jew wanted to know why we use the tetragrammaton....

YHWH is our Creator's Name; "God" is just a title. There was a ban on CURSING in the name, not using the Name. There are at least 300 incidences in Tanakh where we are commanded to use the Name of YHWH, who accepts no substitutes.

Furthermore, Y'shua called His Father MarYAH (Master Yah) in Tanakh quotes like Psalm 110 and in regular conversation. Y'shua was squarely against the Oral Law that included the ban (Joshua 23:7, Isaiah 42:9).

Even in the Greek NT why do you think everyone was upset with "Before Abraham was I AM"?

Why do we use the tetragrammaton?

• Noach built the ark in the Name of YHWH.
  
• Avraham declared the Name of YHWH to his 318 trained men.
  
• Moshe declared the Name of YHWH to Pharaoh.
  
• King David and all the Prophets declare the Name of YHWH.
  
• Mashiyach Y'shua and his disciples declared the Name of YHWH.
  
• The Prophets of YHWH revealed that all the Earth is going to Fear the Name of YHWH.
  
• But the Pharisees, who insist that the Name of YHWH is too Kadosh (holy) to pronounce, devised a big cover-up conspiracy scandal to hide the Name of YHWH from the world. Rabbinical Judaism uses Elokim, HaShem, Adonai and other “knock-off” substitute titles in violation of the Third Commandment: “You shall not take the Name of YHWH in vain” or distort, or bring it to nothing.

Ever wonder about the name "Jehovah?" YHWH's Name was never Jehovah. Man decided to put vowels into the consonants of YHWH's correct, Hebrew name. Actually, the word Jehovah, when dissected is:

Je - which supposedly references Yahweh, even though the Hebrew alphabet contains no "J" at all.

Hovah - which, in Hebrew means: Mischief or confusion.

So, whenever Jehovah's Witnesses call on "Jehovah" they are calling on the god of mischief and confusion....