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* The questions are used here as a device to introduce the materials, there is not an exhaustive nor through response given to these questions. ** This name for God occurs throughout the book of Isaiah, 32 times starting in 1:4 etc. also in Psalms 71:22, 78:41, 89:18 & I Kings, this term is used as it is common to both Christianity and Judaism. Further, we sense is very descriptive for a Hebraic perspective and is some what neutral. This title not loaded with some history of use that has been argued over, like whether it should be pronounced or not pronounced etc. with the divine name. *** This term is used in order to get away from the pejoritic term ‘Old Testament’ which has a clear sense of something being done away with and no longer useful. The Hebrew Bible is use mainly for Christian readers, for the acronym Tanack is much better, but I have found that Christian audiences do not like that term. I have explained the term in beginning of letters, then used it, then had people asked me what it meant at the end of the talk, saying they were confused. So this appears to be the best term to use. While the word Hebraic does not exactly refer to the Hebrew Bible, nonetheless it is relatively close, pointing in the direction of a perspective from Hebrew. We think that the title ‘Old Testament’ is too pejorative a term, with visions of a person with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. The other תנך Hebrew words, כתבי הקדש ,מקרא and present a void of understanding for most people, thus a decision not to use them. |
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