Sacred Names

Você já se perguntou como Moisés pronunciava o Nome Sagrado de Deus? Esta obra ousa explorar as profundezas da gramática do hebraico arcaico e bíblico para responder a essa questão, oferecendo uma análise rigorosa e embasada nas regras linguísticas que moldaram esse idioma sagrado.
Nesta obra singular, conduzimos o leitor a uma jornada profunda pela gramática do hebraico arcaico e bíblico, em busca da pronúncia original do Tetragrama Sagrado. Com rigor investigativo e fundamentação gramatical, exploramos as raízes linguísticas que sustentam o Nome Sagrado, revelando uma forma pronunciada que ecoou nos lábios de Moisés. 

Desafiando visões tradicionais e refutando equívocos gramaticais, esta análise demonstra que a pronúncia do Nome do Pai Celestial não foi perdida nem ocultada, mas encontra-se preservada nas estruturas do idioma hebraico. Esta obra não é apenas um estudo técnico, mas um convite para um diálogo honesto com a pronúncia original por meio da gramática e evidências, que promove uma compreensão mais pura e alinhada da fonética revelanda a Moisés.

Destinado a estudiosos, religiosos e buscadores sinceros, este trabalho ousa enfrentar ideias pré-estabelecidas e confrontar heresias teológicas e gramaticais, lançando luz sobre um dos temas mais misteriosos e fascinantes das Escrituras. Mais do que um estudo, esta obra é um chamado à reflexão e ao desejo de ouvir a voz do Eterno em Seu Santo Nome.

Esta obra é um guia indispensável para todos que almejam ser verdadeiros servos do Senhor-YHVH, proclamando Seu Reino em conformidade com as Sagradas Escrituras e em perfeito uso do Seu Santo Nome.

In the 6 th century AD, less than a century after the Western Roman Empire had fallen, Johannes Laurentius Lydus lived and wrote at the courts of Athanasius I, Justin I and Justinian I (Dmitriev 2015: 1). The Eastern part claimed to be the legitimate heir of the Roman Empire, and Constantinople longed to present itself as the Second Rome (Hammer 1944: 52): after all, they preserved a good deal of the old Roman culture. Justinian I started one military campaign after another to assemble the provinces lost to the Barbarians in Italy, the Balkans, Northern Africa, the Mediterranean islands and Spain. Byzantine troops did not stop their determined advance until the banners of Constantinople, the New Rome, freed the old Urbs Aeterna. As the Eastern Roman Empire wanted to become the legitimate heir, it was necessary to find as many relations between Rome and Constantinople as possible. For this reason, the court's writers started to re-read the old history of Rome with "new eyes" to respond to the elite's pleasure in discovering and claiming its Roman origins (Maas 1992: 54ff.). They were extracting "the bricks" to reconstruct a fundamental narrative from the authors of the glorious past. New times require new foundations. Therefore, to satisfy those necessities imposed by the new status quo, Lydus wrote De Mensibus, an antiquarian work that recalls the very origins of Rome and connects them with Constantinople. It is the

Here I consider Alexandrian Philo’s conception of personal “proper” names. The primary source for such research is his authentic writing called De mutatione nominum which lies within onomastica sacra. In other words, I explore and extract Philo’s understanding of the “proper names” of some selected religious human beings within ‘Hellenistic Judaism' and 'Middle Platonism'.

If you study the old occult sciences of the Islamic world, and in particular their uptake and development by magicians and mystics when they first reached the European continent, you will at some point come across what is known as 'The Science of Letters', (or 'ilm al-ḥurūf' in Arabic).

This paper seeks to answer two primary questions:
1) Would it be better for translations of the Hebrew Bible to use some approximation of Yahweh, or a title like the Lord?
2) When teaching and reading Hebrew today outside of Israel, would it be better to pronounce his name as some approximation like Yahweh, or say Adonai (Lord)?
The aim is to provide as exhaustive a treatment as possible on these subjects, and address issues that many people ignore in discussions on the divine name.

Islam for English Speakers

A Guide to Establishing the Prayer in Islam is a booklet based on the evidence derived from Quran and Sunnah describing the Prayer (Iqamatul Salat) of Muslims from Adhan to the Remembrances customarily recited after the Prayer.

It includes the proof of the number and timing of the obligatory prayers, and their forms, and prerequisites. The Prerequisites are described in detail, including the purity of location, body, spirit and intention.  The actions are explained from ablution, the call, the supplications before beginning recital of the Unlocking of the prayer, the various positions and what is said in each of them, and the supplications that end the prayer.

One section deals with performing the Prayer  in other than Arabic - an action generally assumed to invalidate the Prayer. It discusses in brief the dissenting viewpoint.

The approach to describing the prayer is loosely based on the approach of Sheikh Mohammed Nasser Uddin Al Albani, may Allah have Mercy on him. However, a useful section at the end provides a model for new Muslims to follow for each prayer. This section progressively models the Dawn Prayer, the Sunset prayer, and the Noon, Afternoon and Evening Prayers, and some of the after Prayer Supplications. All of the words needed are provided in transliterated Arabic, not in Arabic script, and in English with pictures to help the beginner get the movements and actions of the Prayer right. 

Finally, the Bibliography provides an exhaustive list of Source Materials and web links to most of them.

I hope the book let proves useful to you.

The Eid Al-Adha's Qurban Feast of the Sacrifice.  This article will present historical definitions of Qurban and making clear the original plan of sacrifices. The definition from antiquity is not what is currently comprehended. The sources of scholarship from antiquity will aid this generation to comprehend that there has been a sinister plot to twist how one would worship and how one would present the necessary offerings to absolve the transgressions of an individual, a family and of the nation. This is a very serious topic that will introduce to the readers who was the aggressive empire as described in Al-Quran 30:2-4 " The Romans have been conquered…but having been conquered they will conquer in a few years. " Historians document that the control and use of language was essential to the conquest! The Hebrew sages hint that the Romans would attack using similar sounding words: Qurban and the Roman wars J. 1411 J. 1411 The adapting (by the Romans) similar words within their attacks upon nations and people is now where the reader may have questions. What was it like to live under ancient idolatrous Roman brutal occupation? What was it like living when heathen Rome had outlawed the calendar of Torah and had outlawed the seasons of worship pilgrimages? This was warned by the prophet Daniel ‫ﷺ‬ regarding the persecuting power that would change things in the seasons of worship pilgrimage and the laws of Torah. Historical evidences are that a wicked power remains of the Roman ecclesiastical powers. Let's look at the evidence of the ancient text: Daniel 7:25 ‫זמנין‬ Definition invited time especially for a meal, a designated chosen time, Biblical festival season. Something changed the care and study concerning how one makes atonement!  This presentation will also prove the sacred name and the Paleo-Arabic declaration of the Shahadah as written by the hand of Musa ﷺ .  Several Islamic historians will provide factual documentation of a vegetarian witness of Judaism of 1000 years ago and of the vegetarian preaching of the prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

Who is Jesus? Did Jesus really exist? Is Jesus God? Is everyone saved because of His sacrifice? What does the term "word" mean in Scripture? How did God reveal Himself in Jesus Christ? How are God's attributes and sacred name manifest in Jesus? What does the Bible say?

In the witch of Edmonton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford transport the reader to a world where words are not merely used as tools for describing settings, anchoring the play and its characters in a specific time and place, or narrating actions. They also bring the reader into a world of witches and devils, where words are more than the sum of their meanings; they also possess the power to affect the physical world and shape the doom or destiny of those who utter them. The sombre consequences of having a "bad tongue" will be tragically faced by the two main protagonists of this play: Frank Thorney and Elizabeth Sawyer. On one side of the scale of justice, the vows, oaths and numerous lies of a young man will slowly and irremediably lead him to his ruin; on the side of the scale, a poor and socially alienated old woman pledges her soul to the devil in order to have revenge on her tormentors, but her imprecations and curses will only accelerate her own fall. While both protagonists suffer the consequences of their actions and are eventually punished by the society that engendered them, their journey is quite distinct. The goal of this essay is thus to attempt to determine, with the help of speech act theory, which of their decisions precipitated their fall and how their own words triggered it.