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	TheologyWeb Campus - View Single Post - Torah vs. Bible
		These names are called theophoric names, from the Greek for "bearing a god." Examples include Saul's son Eshbaal and grandson Merib-baal (1 Chronicles 8:33-34, 9:39-40), whose names incorporate the term baal...Names containing this term, scholars suggest, are evidence of Baal worship among early Israelites.
		Theophoric names...are more revealing religiously in that they are statements about the deity or about the worshiper's relationship to the deity.
		According to one count, of some 521 biblical individuals bearing theophoric names from the patriarchal period through the fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E., 475 (91 percent) bear Yahwistic names (that is, they contain the name YHWH; these first appear in significant numbers in the period of the monarchy).
	www.theologyweb.com /forum/showpost.php?s=b22b8e1604887cce59ec0061694be165&p=773542&postcount=14 (673 words)

	Hidden Theophoric Names And Angelology In The "War Scroll" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Before discovering the theophoric Names in the above words, let it be understood that the praises of ישראל to ה יתברך in their prayers are mirrored by the praises of ה יתברך of ישראל.
		Lest it be thought that the passage above was chosen because it alone contains many theophoric Names, but that this is atypical of the "War Scroll" as a whole, I invite the reader to reread the scroll with an open mind and heart.
		The theophoric names in the "War Scroll" are written into the text on various levels of conspicuity.
	hiddentheophoricnamesinthewarscroll.blogspot.com (1451 words)

	Names
		The majority of Israelite theophoric pns contained either a form of the dn Yahweh, or to a somewhat lesser extent, the generic term el.
		Theophoric pns are also a valuable guide to qualities associated with a given deity.
		It is likely that many theophoric names had this same element of prayer in them—or at the very least, most of those which are based on an imperfect tense of the verb: thus Ezekiel (‘May God strengthen!‘); Isaiah (‘May Yah[weh] save!‘).
	home.paonline.com /ahanna/html/Names.htm (6921 words)

	Amun - OnlineEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Dynasty 11 sprang from a family in the Hermonthite nome or perhaps at Thebes itself, and adorned the Temple of Karnak with statues.
		Amenemhat I, the name of the founder of Dynasty 12, included the theophoric element "Amen" and this same name was borne by three of his successors.
		Several Theban kings of the later part of the Middle Kingdom adopted the same name; and when the Theban family of Dynasty 17 drove out the Hyksos, Amun, as the god of the royal city, was again prominent.
	www.neareasternarchaeology.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Amon (906 words)

	Moses' Egyptian Name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Egypt and Israel, theophoric names were used to induce a deity to place a person under his or her protection.
		Certain theophoric names avoid mentioning the god’s name explicitly, replacing it with either a pronoun or a circumlocution, as shown by the royal names Userkaef ("His ka is powerful"), referring to the god Re, and Senwosret, "The man of the Powerful One," probably referring to the goddess Hathor.
		Theophoric names were used at various times in the deeply religious climate of Egypt and would continue to be so throughout Egyptian history.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/920412/posts (1798 words)

	Capital of Judah I (930-722)
		In sum, while First Temple Judahite culture was Hebrew and its major institutions were royal and prophetic, Second Temple Judaism is a predominantly Aramaic speaking Persian satrapy ruled by a theocratic law, where new forms of literature displace the ancient art of prophecy.
		The name of the Israelite/Judahite deity YHWH (commonly in forms such as Yah or Yahu) appears in many theophoric names of the First Temple Period, e.g., Yirme-yahu, Yesha-yahu, Netan-yah, Yedid-yah, Adoni-yah, Nekhem-yah.
		Theophoric names of this period may also refer to different deities, as in the name Solomon (S-l-m=Salem as in “R-S-l-M, i.e., Urushalimum or Rushalimum).
	www.bu.edu /mzank/Jerusalem/p/period2-2-1.htm (828 words)

	Did the name Yehowah come from an older form Yahowah or Yahwoh ?
		If theophoric names were still pronounced Yaho- (in Hebrew) at the beginning of the 3-rd century before our era, translators of the Septuagint should have preserved these names as Iaô- because they generally kept the first vowel of proper nouns (Zakaria, Nathania, Qahath, instead of Zekaria, Nethania, Qehath, etc.).
		For example, all the "theophoric" names of the god Nabu (beginning in Nebu- in Hebrew) are written Nabou- in the Septuagint.
		Now, among thousands of theophoric names in the Greek (or Hebrew) Bible, there are none which remained as Iaô- or even in Ia- only.
	gertoux.online.fr /divinename/faq/A15.htm (987 words)

	parshablog: New Pope's Name Based on a Mistranslation : thoughts on the weekly parsha (torah portion)
		Another such theophoric names is Azaryahu, for which the shortened version is Azzur.
		In general the shortened form of a theophoric name such as this has a patach under the first letter, gemination (doubling) of the second letter by means of a strong dagesh, and a shuruk between the second and third root letter.
		As Dr. Steiner has pointed out, what happened for the name Berechyahu in its shortening is that the middle root letter, the resh, cannot take the doubling via strong dagesh, for the resh is a quasi-gutteral and as a rule does not receive a dagesh.
	parsha.blogspot.com /2005/04/new-popes-name-based-on-mistranslation.html (322 words)

	Names in Book of Mormon
		Book of Mormon theophoric names such as Gadianhi, Korihor, Amnihor, etc., follow the proper rules of construction with the conventional employment of mimation [ending with ~m] and nunation [ending in ~n].
		The most frequent "theophoric" element in the Book of Mormon and Egyptian names is Ammon.
		Baal names (names compounded with the theophoric Baal element) which thrive in the Old Testament are not found at all in the Book of Mormon.
	www.lightplanet.com /response/names.htm (767 words)

	Canaan & Ancient Israel @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
		Most people were identified by a single name, used in combination with their father's name when specificity was important.
		Names were often theophoric -- including the name of a god or goddess within them.
		The societies of the Bronze and Iron Age southern Levant were patriarchal and gender was an important factor in shaping the opportunities and social roles of the individual.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /Canaan/PersonalIdentity.html (329 words)

	The Name of God YeHoWaH
		According to the Masoretic text, at this time all theophoric names which had a part of the Tetragram integrated at their beginning were pronounced without exception YeHÔ-.
		Consequently, because the Tetragram is obviously the ultimate theophoric name, its reading had to be Yehô-aH to be consistent with all other theophoric names (YHWH can be read YHW-H).
		If the disputes are numerous, some appearing even legitimate, as a whole they constitute a body of proof that their objective is to eliminate the Name.
	perimeno.ca /Name_YHWH/YHWH_5.htm (192 words)

	Lexicon of Greek Personal Names - Names
		In general, while it is fair to say that the concepts embraced in a society’s names are a clue to the history and values of that society, it is only rarely that we have the opportunity to assess how conscious of meaning individual Greek parents were when making a choice of name.
		A distinct and important category of names was those based on the names of gods, ‘theophoric’ names.
		Theophoric names could also be formed from cult titles of gods, and from lesser deities such as nymphs and river gods.
	www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk /names/meaning.html (272 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.08.22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Then he considers distribution: theophorics are more commonly borne by men than women; by slaves than free persons; are more common in some regions than others; more common later than earlier.
		Occasionally, by virtue of their tendency to retain archaic features, theophoric names may even demonstrate the existence of an otherwise unattested god (Mandros) and (if cautiously interpreted) may tell us something about the place of origin, geographical distribution and popularity of cults.
		I should say this is because, while formally also a theophoric, the ethnic connotation was primary and the name was therefore avoided in the earlier period.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2001/2001-08-22.html (3597 words)

	Theophoric names for women? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Thanks to Todd and Baruch for their indications of female theophoric names.
		Stig's opinion was that it is questionable that there are any theophoric women names in the OT.
		The best I can find are the papyri from Elephantine circa 420 BCE, which seem to contain theophoric names only with a yahwistic or an elohistic component, notwithstanding the presence of female deity names, Anath-Yahu and Anath-Bethel (perhaps the same deity) and a possible son of Yahweh, 'Ashim-Bethel.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/1999-December/005273.html (261 words)

	Y'hudah or Yahudah? - Forums at EliYah's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Even the ancient Pharisaic rabbinical sages understood the theophoric element YHW to be contained in the name Yahudah.
		The theophoric element is contained in the name.
		The spellings Y-ah-u and its alternate spelling Y-u for the praenomen are both found as the theophoric element in the name Yahuseph (English “Joseph”), showing that they are interchangeable.
	www.eliyah.com /forum2/Forum1/HTML/001345-2.html (724 words)

	TFBA - Earliest Appearance of Abbreviation for the Israelite God
		As Tom McCollough and Beth Glazier-McDonald note in the accompanying article, the silver amulet they describe contains several theophoric elements representing the ineffable name of the Israelite God, usually written in scholarly literature as Yahweh and referred to as the Tetragrammaton, for the four Hebrew letters of which it is comprised, YHWH.
		These theophoric elements in the amulet at YAY, YH, YHW and, they add, perhaps YYY and YY (see translation in amulets article).
		In this context, these theophoric elements are abbreviations of the divine name.
	www.tfba.org /articles.php?articleid=15 (972 words)

	First Impression: What We Learn from King Ahaz's Seal (#m1) < Monographs < Archaeological Center - Licensed to sell ...
		You will now recognize the theophoric element in the name of Ahaz's father as given in Ahaz's seal: Yehotam.
		The name appears 19 times in the Bible, but it is spelled Yo-tam in each case, with the theophoric element used in the northern kingdom of Israel (YW).
		The correct spelling of the theophoric element is Yeho- (YHW).
	www.archaeological-center.com /en/monographs/m1 (1678 words)

	Elephantine Name Parallels - Ancient Mormon Doctrine Scholar Dr. Einar C. Erickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Jaredites, descendants of Shem, originated or came from central Mesopotamia near the Tower of Babel, [near present Bagdad] and were informed of the coming confusion of tongues (Ether l:33-34). They were told that their language would not be confounded.
		296) Theophoric names contain at least two elements; (1) one is the name of the deity and the other (2) tells something about the deity, or what he does, and generally this is the rest of the name.
		133) The theophoric element may be a prefix, a suffix, or both, or in the core of the name.
	www.einarerickson.com /content/view/63/39 (5349 words)

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		Subject: ane Theophoric element in Names Hello all The lachish Letters of the 7th century BC indicate that Yahweh was the primary deity used as the theophoric element.
		Subject: Re: ane Theophoric element in Names Noel O'Riordan (Wednesday, March 22) asked: > Is there any set of statistics outlining the relative occurrences of various > theophoric elements in Israel/Judah before the 5th century > J.
		Subject: RE: ane Theophoric element in Names J. H.Tigay ("You Shall Have No Other Gods," Atlanta: Scholars 1986) studied 1200 Hebrew personal names of the 9th to 6th centuries BCE on seals, ostraca and graffiti.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/2000/v2000.n084 (3855 words)

	Are the two names Yah and Yahu, which are found at the end of some Hebrew proper names, abbreviations of the Tetragram ?
		In the same way, as there were theophoric names elaborated from the great name, that is names beginning with Yehô- or its shortened form Y(eh)ô-, there were also theophoric names elaborated from Yah.
		So, those who vocalize YHWH in Yahweh are obliged to admit that the Tetragram, the theophoric name by excellence, does not belong to its family of theophoric names, what is the height of irony.
		This nonsense is clearly apparent when one opens a dictionary, where the name Yahve is completely isolated from the other theophoric names like: Joshua, Jonathan, Jesus, John, etc. For example, the name YHWHNN (John) is vocalized Yehôha-nan in Hebrew and Iôa-nan in Greek (not Iaô-nan).
	gertoux.online.fr /divinename/faq/A14.htm (1204 words)

	CONVERSION OF MEDES AND PERSIANS
		The Elamite tablets of Persepolis, and the Aramaic documents yield, through theophoric names, evidence for the veneration of a number of the Avestan Yazatas.
		The absence of the three other members of the Zoroastrian Heptad [Speta Armaiti (Esfand), Haurvatat (Khordad), and Ameretat (Amordad) is not surprising, since they are female Yazatas, and relatively few women's names have survived from this time.
		It is significant that among the numerous theophoric Old Persian names now known, not one is compounded with that of a daiva (Avestan Daeva), i.e., the warlike Indra and his fellows.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Religions/iranian/Zarathushtrian/Oric.Basirov/conversion_of_medes_and_persians.htm (1579 words)

	Islam is repackaged polytheism: Encyclopedia Britannica, Arabian Religions, p1057, 1979
		His veneration at a very early stage is attested by his appearance in theophoric names, that is, personal names of which one element is a divine name (the biblical name Gabriel is an example).
		Although El was preserved in early Nabataean theophoric cornpounds, in Palmyra a more central place in the cult went to Bel (Baal, "Lord"), and in both Petra and Palmyra to Belshamin ("Lord of the Heavens").
		With Bel, sometimes in a triad, the Palmyrenes associated Yarhibol, a solar deity, and Aglibol, a lunar deity; while Belshamin stood in a triadic relationship with the gods Malakbel, also a solar deity, and Aglibol.
	www.bible.ca /islam/library/islam-quotes-britannica.htm (2760 words)

	The Ultimate Theophoric names - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Theophoric names are exceedingly common in the Ancient Near East and Mesopotamia, where the personal name of an individual included the name of a god in whose care the individual is entrusted.
		The practice, called in onomastics theophory, refers to this naming convention of adding a god's name (or the local equivalent of the generic term for god) to an individual's proper name.
		"The name of the Israelite deity YHWH (usually shorter as Yah or Yahu) appears in many theophoric names of the First Temple Period, e.g., Yirme-yahu, Yesha-yahu, Netan-yah, Yedid-yah, Adoni-yah, Nekhem-yah.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Theophoric_names (213 words)

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		Subject: ane Multiple theophoric names List members: Eliyahu and Joel (Yoel) have the distinction of bearing doubly theophoric names.
		Subject: Re: ane Multiple theophoric names Richard Stern wrote: > Eliyahu and Joel (Yoel) have the distinction of > bearing doubly theophoric names.
		The initial Eli- is probably to be understood as a noun, el, with a 1.c.s.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1999/v1999.n246 (1174 words)

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