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Yahweh in the Catholic "Jerusalem Bible".?

Why has the Catholic Church reinstated the divine name (Yahweh) in all of the nearly 7000 places in the Old Testament of their Jerusalem Bible (1966), and then again in the New Jerusalem Bible (1985)?

Is this a new statement from the Catholic Church on the importance of God's name and it being known and used by Catholics?

The two Catholic Jerusalem Bibles are beginning to look remarkedly like the Jehovah's Witnesses' "New World Translation", with it's numerous other changes in that direction.

Has anyone else noticed the many similarities between these three Bibles?

Update:

ADDED - The first major Bible to remove God's name was the Protestant KJB. The Catholics followed a few years later. The Protestants were the first to put it back - in 1901.

Update 2:

THESEUS - God was Yahweh a long time before Mohammad came along and called him Allah. Do the research, please!

Update 3:

YIIYAH - You have it backwards. This is the Catholic Church being HONEST for the first time. Yahweh IS the divine name and JWs have said so first. The CC confirms them!

Update 4:

ADDED - TeeM - God's name certainly was removed at least 6828 times in the KJB and the first English Catholic Bibles. It only started to be put back in a few Bibles recently.

BAAL is not God's name. Where did you get that one?

Update 5:

ADDED - TeeM - God's name certainly was removed at least 6828 times in the KJB and the first English Catholic Bibles. It only started to be put back in a few Bibles recently.

BAAL is not God's name, if that's what you meant.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favourite answer

    yeah, they shouldn't have taken it out in the first place! if He didn't want us to use His name then He wouldn't have told us what it was to begin with!! the NWT is the best bible to imitate, only the people who have read it can say this

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Yahweh Catholic

  • 4 years ago

    sure it incredibly is an extremely astonishing version using the latest findings of the scrolls from the previous century. additionally, slightly common actuality is that J.R.R. Tolkien is taken under consideration certainly one of the translators and he's one which insisted on the extra precise use of Yahweh for God interior the Psalms. The NAB although precise is common for being perplexing to verify. The JB is one which i very lots treasure and love. additionally, purely FYI no English translation obtainable is unfastened from association with some widely used team that provides slightly style of that team to their translation. The NIV Bible which i like, rather omitted the understanding "custom" in any helpful places that it would desire to have been translated. Which shows an anti-Catholic Bias. word: i see you added to this so i purely % to assert that I certainly have the JB with each and every of the great helps it incredibly is out of print yet astounding for its notes and references. additionally, I certainly have a chum who can examine Hebrew and in a bible learn the place we've been gazing the unique Hebrew this translation had the purely right translation in accordance to him, and he had in no way considered one earlier, isn't Catholic, and replaced into very inspired with the version.

  • TeeM
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    God's name was never taken out of the bible.

    It is there in the orignial languages.

    It has been man, who has chosen not to teach people about the wonderful God, Yahweh / Jehovah.

    They are fulfilling the prophecy in Jer. 23:’ 26 How long will it exist in the heart of the prophets who are prophesying the falsehood and who are prophets of the trickiness of their own heart? 27 They are thinking of making my people forget my name by means of their dreams that they keep relating each one to the other, just as their fathers forgot my name by means of Ba′al.

    Baal translated into english is Lord.

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  • 4 years ago

    The Catholics own Encyclopedia answers "Yahweh" as "Jehovah" (Any other name are false or Titles) on some or most of their own Websites over & over again. The Fight Against God s Name & How God s Name Has Been Made Known Jw.org Library. Type exact Title. Psalms 83:18, Numbers 23:19 or woman, Proverbs 3:5,6 & 8, John 8:31 & 32, Matthew 7:15-23 Vs. 21 will of God is the key. When God s Will Is Done on Earth Jw.org Library. Title. "Bible Teachings & Questions" on our Website Jw.org Official. What about the other religions Encyclopedia or Websites on God s name "Jehovah"? Hmmmmm. Information from Stephen Russ Jr. Twitter. Take Care.

  • Yili
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I thought that was his name, but now hearing that the catholics are using it I guess I was wrong.

    Because everything they teach is a lie.

    If they say left I go right.

    So I guess his real name must be Hewhay!

  • 1 decade ago

    i believe it was translated as people were getting confused. we have a much more educated society nowadays and therefore -- comprehension levels are much different. we (Rcc) have always had hymns of praise to Yahweh.

  • 1 decade ago

    I guess you are right.

    They should have just called him by his other name - Allah.

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