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Honest to Moses – Theophory – His Name in Their Name – Class Fourteen (The Names of God and People Related to the Dating of a Text; God Has a Name, Yod-Heh-Vav-Hey The Name of God was Spoken Freely; How do we Pronounce the Name; The Four ;(יהוה) Vowels; Theophoric Names Bearing the Name of God; Why Jehoash Became Joash – Eliminating the “Hey”; Pronouncing the Divine Name Became Forbidden; Examples of the Same Story with Different Names for the Deity – YHVH vs. Elohim; I am YHVH – This is My Name Forever; Theophoric Names are Few During the Patriarchal Period; Moses Changes Hoshea’s Name to Yehoshua / Joshua – The Salvation of YHVH)

August 28, 2021 – Ross Nichols

Honest to Moses – Theophory – His Name in Their Name – Class Fourteen

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TODAY’S INTRODUCTION -Welcome to United Israel World Union, this is our Sabbath morning scripture study coming to you live from the United Israel Center in Saint Francisville, Louisiana. Many of you are in your own place today, alone, Shabbat Shalom and thank you for joining us this morning. We need one another to help us go through what the world is going through today. I pray that all of you and the ones that you care for remain healthy today and throughout the coronavirus. -We have currently moved into a new study called “Honest to Moses”, which began May 8, 2021. This will be a very lengthy, in-depth, seat of the chair teaching that will challenge you. Many of you who have followed these teachings for awhile are quite prepared and equipped for what’s to follow in the text because we are going to be “Honest to Moses”. This series builds upon things that we’ve covered in the past. What I’ve presented to this point has been purposely presented in the order in which it was and in the manner in which it was in order to prepare us for this series. Our previous series on Prophet – “The Servant” will weave together in the biblical text with our new series “Honest to Moses”, a Quest for the Historical Moses. -If you find things in our classes on the quest for the historical Moses are cause for alarm in your spiritual quest, please don’t let it be so. We are looking at the biblical text in a way that few people look at it. Most people follow their traditional views of the text, and they have answers to the questions that are built on their particular theological views. I’m looking at the texts and letting the text speak for itself. I will not apologize for the texts of the bible, but rather present the text as it’s presented. Only then can we get closer to the original intent of the authors. -During the course of this study I want to add in what you might call some of Moses’ Greatest Hits. Where we talk about some of his teachings that we can with a fair degree of certainty trace back to the historical Moses. We have two prongs to our approach, we have the man Moses, and we have the message of Moses, which is primarily available to us through the Pentateuch, the first five books of the bible. Specifically beginning with Exodus 2 through the end of Deuteronomy we are exposed to material about the man and the message.

TEACHING NOTES -Today we continue our quest for the historical Moses, and we are on Class 14 in our series called, “Honest to Moses”. Today’s class is called “Theophory – His Name in Their Name”. In our previous classes we get a little bit about Moses family and the family into which he marries, and about the various cultures around him and of the message of Moses. When I talk about the fundamental bedrock teachings of Moses from the Pentateuch, we are trying to discern the teaching of Moses. What is it that we learn from Moses that we can trace back to the historical figure of Moses? -Today I want to take a closer look at the name for the deity. Over the next several classes, I want to get into more of the details about various names or titles for God. Today’s class is the first in a series within a series dealing with God’s name. How is it that the name YHVH occurs as early as Genesis 2:4? 165 times in the Book of Genesis. -Gen 2: 4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that YHVH God made the earth and the heavens. -Exo 6: 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am YHVH. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name YHVH I did not make myself known to them. -Here we read where God says that he was not known by the name YHVH that early. Either the bible is mistaken or that’s a true statement. Today we’ll look at this specific question as well as a few other related questions looking for answers from the text. Today’s class is also be related to the quest for the historical Moses. One of the best clues as to when a text is written has to do with names and can help us to determine the age of a text. Of particular, names of people and names of God; and one of the best clues is when the name of God and the name of people meet. It’s where the human and the divine meet in a name that one can learn the most. We can learn the most about the time of a text, especially when we overlay certain historical data and historically known details that we can look at these names and say, I know when that was written, and I know when that was not written. Part of my class today deals with names for God, and what those names can teach us about the dating of a text and other things as well. We’ll also look at a second point in this class, different but related, and it deals with the names of people in the bible and what those names can teach us about the dating of a text and other things. -I begin today with a problem presented to us within the biblical texts which has to do with the name of God, where we’ll talk about the four Hebrew letters from right to left, For many of us, discovering that God had a name and that our .(יהוה ) yod-hey-vav-hey English bibles would say, LORD, and we realized that behind that was a word that didn’t it ,(יהוה) mean LORD, and that LORD was a substitution for the name, yod-hey-vav-heh changed everything. It was and is and remains to be a vital part of our faith. Many of us know that movements and ministries have been founded and sustained on this. To know God’s name is very important. You know of all the texts that speak about knowing God’s name. It’s a central part of the faith to know God’s name and more importantly, how to properly pronounce the name. Many have said, if you’re not pronouncing the name right, God doesn’t even hear you. Disagreements on the name abound. People have fought over it and whether one should even pronounce it. As such, some have substituted for the name of Adonai, because they believe it’s too holy to pronounce. Yet, when you read the Hebrew scriptures, you know that men and women in the biblical period knew nothing of this rule and the name was spoken freely. In Deuteronomy, we are told to swear by the name. It was commonly used in speech. They didn’t’ walk around and substitute the name for Adonai nor say Hashem in speech, the name was used. -The question is, how was it pronounced. Can we determine how to recover the proper Today’s class is not just ?(יהוה) pronunciation? How do we pronounce yod-hey-vav-heh about my understanding of how to pronounce the name of God, it’s also about a related topic and to the study of the name. These four letters are known, especially in the academic world, as the tetragrammaton, which is a Greek word meaning, four letters. This four-lettered word occurs in the text of the Hebrew Bible more than 6,000 times. -The question again is, how is it pronounced? Some people say Yahweh, Yehovah, Yehowah, and Yewhowah etc. Many people will tell you why they believe their pronunciation is correct and it’s the only correct one. The names range from the ones given here to many more and some are hardly readable. All of these are derived from an Yet the first .(יהוה) attempt to vocalize these four Hebrew letters, yod-hey-vav-heh problem shows up when we say, yod-hey-vav-heh, because some people question / argue whether the third letter is a vav or a waw. Before you can read something you have to know what the letters are and their phonetic value or an approximation before you can get close. .(יהוה) Most scholars use the name Yahweh as the correct pronunciation when they see- There is untold literature out there on the divine name. Sometimes you’ll see it written out as YHWH or YHVH. Those English approximations are meant to represent the divine name in English without weighing into the debate as to how you pronounce it. In some ways this is a good way to do it, but even there you’ll get disagreements. The way that people come up with the pronunciation Yahweh is based at least in part on a quote from Josephus in The Wars of the Jews, Book 5, Chapter 5. The first century historian, Flavius Josephus is recounting a description of the high priest and what his garments look like. “A mitre also of fine linen encompassed his head, which was tied by a blue ribbon, about which there was another golden crown, in which was engraven the sacred name [of God]: it consists of four vowels.” -If you open your grammar book and you’re a beginning student of Biblical Hebrew you’ll read that the Hebrew language consists of 22 characters, all of which are consonants. What is Josephus talking about, are there vowels? Over time with Semitic languages, we have what grammarians call with a Latin phrase, “mitre”, which means mother, like with the mothers of reading. Over time in order to pronounce particular words within a language, some letters took on vocalic power in the sense of a vowel sound and began to serve double duty. As an example, in English, the letter “y” can function as both a consonant and a vowel. The way they come up with Yahweh is that as vowels, ee-aah-ooh-aa. If you say it fast, it sounds like (יהוה) they pronounce the letters Yahweh. We are dealing with vowel sounds that are brought together. In English you see this in names. In transliteration, it’s taking a phrase or a word and bringing it into another language using the characters of the recipient language, but it’s preserving the Hebrew word. In English, we find this “iah” at the end of words like with Isaiah. -This pronunciation, ee-aah-ooh-aa becomes problematic when we look at the second part of my teaching today, and the real part of my class. We are going to show forth evidence as to how the name was pronounced in antiquity during the biblical period as it’s expressed and presented and preserved within the names of people of the biblical times. It’s a clue. We’ll look at some of these names and focus in on how is it that the name .is preserved within names, which will help us with the pronunciation (יהוה) -You have a vocabulary word of the day. Theophory is a Greek word which means, baring a God and theo in Greek, means God. Theophoric names deal with a name which are derived from or bares forth the name of a God. The idea is that, within a name, God’s name is there. This has been around forever and is evidenced in many ancient cultures, not just biblical or Hebrew cultures. We find the subject of names bearing the name of God. -Recall earlier in our Honest to Moses Series, I talked about the name of Moses because it’s a good example to build from. The name Moses has nothing to do with the name of God or gods, but in Egyptian, Moses means “born of”, like birthing. If you say Thutmoses, that means “son of Thoth”, or born of Thoth. It’s an indicator that this person who bears the name is born of the god Thut. If you say Ramesses, that means “born of Ra”, “son of Ra”. Born of the god Ra. We have this idea that the ruler, Ramesses is saying in his name, he’s bearing the name Ra, he’s born of Ra. The bible is full of many of these examples. -One of the academic papers I read on this topic was from a 1990 doctoral thesis by Dana M. Pike called “Israelite – Theophoric Names in the Bible and Their Implications for Religious History”. What I learned from this study is that there are 521 biblical individuals who bear theophoric names. In another study by Jeffery Tigay the great bible scholar in terms of Deuteronomy history, he writes that there are 1,200 names from the Hebrew bible period on lapidary sample inscriptions and 671 names contain these elements of God’s name being born within a name. This is a common practice in the ancient world. Today we still use names which bear the name of God and most of these are biblical names. Most theophoric names combine the name of God with a word. We have examples such as Eleazar, which means El is my help and Samuel, which means Sh’ma (hear, listen, take heed) and El (God). Does this mean El hears? -Gen 16: 11 And the angel of YHVH said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because YHVH has listened to your affliction. -A more accurate way to put this is, you shall call him Ishmael, for El has paid heed to your suffering. Of the names within the biblical text that employ a form of a divine element in them, it’s the tetragrammaton that’s used. In various forms, if the divine element occurs at the beginning of the word, it’s pronounced one way or if the divine element occurs at the end of the word, it’s pronounced another way. Whenever the four- lettered name of God, in one form or another, appears in a theophoric name they’re called Yahwistic names. When you look at this in the English texts, you’ll see this, like with Isaiah, Jeremiah, Obadiah, Nehemiah, Uzziah, and Eliahu etc. Names have meaning and at times they bear the name of God. -While ee-aah (yod-hey) and ee-aah-ooh (yod-hey-vav) are often found in these names, it only occurs in this pronunciation at the end of a name. It’s pronounced Yah or Yahoo at the end of a word. Not one example that I know of occurs at the beginning. If Yah (yod- hey) or Yahoo (yod-hey-vav) appears within a name and occurs at the beginning it is not is sometimes represented as (יהוה) .(pronounced Yah (ee-aah) or Yahoo (ee-aah-ooh YHVH or YHWH. The yod (Y) as it developed over time ultimately in the 1600s into the letter J in English, giving us JHVH or JHWH. When we find the divine elements at the beginning of a Yahwistic name you find Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jehozabed, Jehoshua, Jehohanan, Jehoiada, Jehoiakin, Jehoiakim, Jehoiarib, Jehonadab, Jehoaddah, Jehozadak, Jehoram, and Jehoshaphat etc. See the following link for additional information on Theophoric names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophoric_name -Notice that none of these names are Yehoahaz, Yehoash, Yehozabed etc. I’m not aware of the pronunciation of Yah or Yahoo occurring at the beginning. We notice a few other things when it comes to theophoric names that bear on our present quest. At times we find these names with a prefixed theophoric element that’s been reduced from Yeho to Yo. Instead of having yod-hey-vav (Yahoo/Yeho) in the Hebrew you just have yod-vav (ee-ooh/Yo) and people refer to it as a different form of a theophoric name. Sometimes Yehoash is spelled Yoash; like Jehoash becoming Joash. This is the same person, but why the difference which eliminates the “hey”? Some scholars propose there was a scribal practice that resulted in and is driven by theological points at a later period when the pronunciation of the divine name was forbidden. Jehoash is too close to the divine name which was now forbidden and shortened to Joash. That editing process was not full and wasn’t complete to wash the text of all of this that we see. -Within the text of the bible we find names that are spelled differently and texts which employ different forms of the name, but we see almost two traditions where a text will sometimes report an account and use the name YHVH, and at other times the same story is told in a different place and uses Elohim. The question is, which one is first? Was the text originally written with YHVH and later brought down to Elohim because of the practice of not pronouncing the divine name, or was it the other way around? Let me give you an example. -2Sam 5: 19 And David inquired of YHVH, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?" And YHVH said to David, "Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand." 20 And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, "YHVH has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim. -2Sam 5: 23 And when David inquired of YHVH, he said, "You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come against them opposite the balsam trees. 24 And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then YHVH has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines." 25 And David did as YHVH commanded him, and struck down the Philistines from Geba to Gezer. -1Chr 14: 10 And David inquired of God (Elohim), "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?" And YHVH said to him, "Go up, and I will give them into your hand." 11 And he went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck them down there. And David said, "God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim. -This is the same story, but the only difference is that the text in Chronicles has almost been completely changed or is it Samuel that’s been changed? -1Chr 14: 14 And when David again inquired of God (Elohim), God (Elohim) said to him, "You shall not go up after them; go around and come against them opposite the balsam trees. 15 And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out to battle, for God (Elohim) has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines." 16 And David did as God (Elohim) commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer. -In one text, the deity is referred to as YHVH and in another text the deity is referred to as Elohim. -2 Sam 6: 9 And David was afraid of YHVH that day, and he said, "How can the ark of YHVH come to me?" 11 And the ark of YHVH remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and YHVH blessed Obed-edom and all his household. 17 And they brought in the ark of YHVH and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before YHVH. -1Chr 13: 12 And David was afraid of God (Elohim) that day, and he said, "How can I bring the ark of God (Elohim) home to me?" 13 So David did not take the ark home into the city of David, but took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 14 And the ark of God (Elohim) remained with the household of Obed-edom in his house three months. And YHVH blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that he had. -1Chr 16: 1 And they brought in the ark of God (Elohim) and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God (Elohim). -What we have is different literary traditions which are preserved, details are fairly consistent, but in one version you have the name yod-hey-vav-hey, the divine name, the tetragrammaton, and in another text reporting the same event, the name Elohim. -Psa 14: 2 YHVH looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God (Elohim). 4 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon YHVH? 7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When YHVH restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. -Psa 53: 2 God (Elohim) looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God (Elohim). 4 Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God (Elohim)? 6 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God (Elohim) restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. -Psalm 14 uses the divine name, the tetragrammaton and Psalm 53 uses Elohim, why is that? Consider this… -Gen 4: 26 To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of YHVH. -In Genesis 2:4 is the first mention of the divine name, and it occurs in the Book of Genesis over 160 times. -Exo 6: 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am YHVH. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty (El Shaddai), but by my name YHVH I did not make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Say therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am YHVH, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. -Exo 3: 13 Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?" 14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" 15 God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel: YHVH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'YHVH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt, -Moses just met God at the burning bush and God introduces himself by this new name and says, I wasn’t known by this name to the children of Israel, I was known as El Shaddai. Moses says, when I tell them you sent me, the God of their fathers, they’re going to say, what’s his name? What do I tell them? And he gives them a name that the children of Israel didn’t know. The children of Israel didn’t know the name of YHVH prior to Exodus 6. How then do we find the name of YHVH 165 times in the Book of Genesis? -When we deal with Yahwistic names, I’m going to work backwards from the 571 Yahwistic names as called in the biblical period. Texts that exist in post-Exile times, we have 108 occurrences of Yahwistic names. Late Judah to the Exile we have 119 in people’s names. The divided (יהוה) occurrences of a form of the divine name monarchy, say from 931 BCE to 722 BCE we have 108 occurrences. Judges through the (יהוה) beginning of the monarchy we have 137 occurrences of a form of the divine name in people’s names. Late settlement period, like conquest of the land, we have 3 in people’s names. Beyond the settlement (יהוה) occurrences of a form of the divine name and during the monarchy period there are hundreds of occurrences, but in the late settlement period there are only 3. How many names during the patriarchal period in people’s names? Zero! We have theophoric (יהוה) contained a form of the divine name elements in names, Ishmael, but it’s El. Israel, but it’s El. The one who is chosen by the creator is called Israel, but it’s El. Think about all the sons of Israel, don’t you think that in their name? What about (יהוה) somebody would have a form of the divine name Yᵉho'addah / Jehoaddah, the Yeh on the front of Yehoaddah is a verbal prefix of the .(יהוה) imperfect and is not a form of the divine name is not found in the people’s names during the (יהוה) Why is it that the divine name- patriarchal period? Why are forms of the divine name not found in the people’s names until the time of Moses? The answer is simple, it wasn’t known until the time of Moses. Guess what time frame it’s in when it’s used for the very first time? -Num 13: 8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun; 16 These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. -Moses changes the name of Hoshea his right-hand man to Yehoshua / Joshua. Moses has just learned the divine name and he takes who is to be his successor and he adds a theophoric element to his name, and he says your name will now be Yehoshua. Now it means the salvation of Yeho, of YHVH. Some suggest one other name in the Pentateuch who has the divine name and that’s Jochebed. -Exo 6: 20 Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father's sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years. -Num 26: 59 The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister. -Jochebed is Moses’ mother. It’s interesting that the name is the reduced name, Yo/Jo. If Jochebed is a theophoric name, then it is the reduced form which many scholars believe is later. This may be the only other example in the Pentateuch and it’s from the time of Moses. What if Moses changes his mother’s name? He changed Joshua’s name. Did Moses introduce the children of Israel ?(יהוה) Did Moses introduce the divine name- In the original the name was probably pronounced with the vowel .(יהוה) the divine name power, ee-aah-ooh-aa. When ever I think about the name and the evidence from the Pentateuch which suggests that it just wasn’t known until Moses brings it to the children of Israel. Where did Moses learn the name? Where did he get it from and what is the ?(יהוה) origin of that name? What’s the true meaning of the divine name -We have folk etymology in the bible that presents names according to a Hebrew scribe trying to make it fit Hebrew and that’s not what it means. It comes from another language source. When we read in Exodus 3 the meaning of the name is that similar to the story in Moses’s naming where Moses’s name, if you squint, can be connected to a Hebrew verb that means to draw out, but what if it’s really Egyptian? What about this four-letter name ?What if it’s not really Hebrew and we have to look somewhere else for the name ?(יהוה) Is Moses the first one to learn this name? According to the bible he is at least among the Israelite people, Moses brings God’s new name which the people had never heard before. Where did he learn it? What are some of the other ancient names of God that the children of Israel called the deity? What does El Shaddai mean? What does El mean? What does Elyon mean? Is El a Canaanite god and thus to be shunned? Is El, Eloah, and Elohim just titles? Next week we’ll turn our attention to an in-depth study of the names of God.

Shabbat Shalom, Shavua Tov, prayers for all of you in the storms path including my own family members. Thank you for joining us, I love ya, see you next week.

THIS WEEK IN TORAH AUGUST 28, 2021 This week’s Torah Portion KiTavo: “When You Enter” (Deuteronomy 26:1 – 29:8) Offerings of firstfruits and tithes, Confession of the tithes, God and Israel are inseparable, The new commitment, Blessings and curses, The altar on Mount Ebal, Curses from Mount Ebal, Blessings for fulfilling the commandments, Curses for disobedience, Moses final charge to the people, The covenant renewed in Moab. “Shavua Tov" and Have a Great Week! “This Week in Torah” FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/571648826269105/

Covenant Consequences – Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1 – 29:8) (Blessings and Curses; Moses Makes Plain the Teachings; Keep All the Commandments and Be Holy to YHVH Your God; Do These Things with All Your Heart and All Your Soul; YHVH is Your God – Obey His Voice; YHVH’s Treasured Possession; This Idea of the Consequences; The Curse of The Law vs. The Word is Very Near to You So You Can Do It; Obey My Voice; True Righteousness; No Man can Die to Pay for the Sins of Another; Turn and Live; The Path to Life is Through the Commandments) September 1, 2018 – Ross Nichols Covenant Consequences – Ki Tavo Audio/Video Link: https://unitedisraelworldunion.com/covenant-consequences-kitavo/?fbclid=IwAR2zgpRX0a- JQtoaDKWVWzJoUZAWIAQiULTC7a6o2xYgvKtyTlqbQIpkbMs

“HONEST TO MOSES” TEACHING SERIES The following link is for the UIWU Teaching Series “Honest to Moses”, Class 1-13. https://www.facebook.com/groups/unitedisraelworldunion/permalink/130034967705 0050 Posted are Teaching Summaries with Links to Ross’s Audio/Video Classes, both UIWU and YouTube, and Links to the Teaching Notes on the Official UIWU Website as posted weekly on this website. https://unitedisraelworldunion.com/ Additionally, all Teaching Notes are also available on the UIWU Facebook Site under the “Files” Tab. https://www.facebook.com/groups/unitedisraelworldunion/files Information from last week’s class is also noted below…

(13) Honest to Moses – Who Wrote Genesis – Moses, Another, or Others – Class Thirteen (Materials in the Pentateuch that Fall Outside the Time of Moses; Getting Closer to the Words and Time of Moses; A Closer Look at the Book of Genesis; Is Genesis Written by a Single or Multiple Authors; Examples of Non-Contemporary Additions – At That Time; The Call of Abram; Examples of Updated Place Names – Formally was, That is; Hebron, Dan, and the Land of the Hebrews; Examples of Rough Edges and Different Sources; The Wives of Esau; Two “Creation” Accounts; Elohim vs. YHVH as Deity; Two “Flood” Accounts; Two “Naming of Israel” Accounts) August 21, 2021 – Ross Nichols Audio/Video Links: https://unitedisraelworldunion.com/honest-to-moses-who-wrote-genesis-moses- another-or-others-class-thirteen/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EowIKiOxuyc Teaching Notes Link: https://unitedisraelworldunion.com/wp- content/uploads/2021/08/2021.8.21-Honest-to-Moses-Who-Wrote-Genesis-Moses- Another-or-Others-Class-Thirteen.pdf

UIWU ANNOUNCEMENT: The Moses Scroll book release date of 8 March 2021 was purposely chosen. Moses Shapira died on 8 March 1884, and as far as we know, the last public sighting of his scroll was 8 March 1889. It seemed apropos to share the scroll anew with the world on that same fateful day. https://themosesscroll.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Moses-Scroll-Ross-K-Nichols/dp/1736613405/?pldnSite=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iud2k6HwTL4&t=16s https://www.facebook.com/themosesscroll/videos/535074677630755

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