Hebrew Voices #162 – Writing the Name of God in Torah Scrolls

interesting.

Very interesting Nehemia! Thanks for sharing this! Shalom Philip

Very Cool. Since reading Shattering the Conspiracy of Silence, and A Prayer to Our Father, many years ago, I have not stopped using the name of Yehovah in all of my writings. Thank you for educating me on this. When I spell the name wrong because I mistype and then backspace to correct it, am I treating the name with irreverence? I want to say it and spell it correctly. What did the scribes do when they misspelled the name?

Enlightening to be a virtual part of the scholars’ discussion. Thanks for this opportunity!
Take-away: at some times the rules are one way and sometimes the rules forbid the other rules — such as color of the script for the tetragrammaton. Is this a question of change of culture with time and place or does it represent two different groups — rabbinites and Karaites or some local tradition? If rules are imposed in an opposite direction does this imply that one group of scribes is trying to distance itself from another set of scribes? Or is it a question of a scribe in one case who has colored inks and another who feels let down because he does not have access to more than one traditional ink? Allowing or forbidding colored ink is one way to discredit or downgrade the ink culture of certain scribes and their work and then their community. Is there any evidence of scrolls written by Nazarenes? They had to have the Tanakh and maybe they could not get scrolls from either rabbinites or Karaites. If so what is their tradition?