1 juin 67 - Superstition

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When did the Jews in general actually stop pronouncing the personal name of God?

So, at least in written form, there is no sound evidence of any disappearance or disuse of the divine name in the B.C.E. period. In the first century C.E., there appears some evidence of a superstitious attitude toward the name. Josephus... when recounting God's revelation to Moses at the site of the burning bush, says: "Then God revealed to him His name, which ere then had not come to men's ears, and of which I am forbidden to speak." (Jewish Antiquities, II, 276 [xii, 4]) Josephus' statement, however, besides being inaccurate as to knowledge of the divine name prior to Moses, is vague and does not clearly reveal just what the general attitude current in the first century was to pronouncing or using the divine name.

Some of the Mishnaic material clearly relates to circumstances prior to the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in 70 C.E. Some of the Mishnaic traditions concerning the pronouncing of the divine name are recorded in Yoma 6:2; Sotah 7:6; Sanhedrin 7:5; 10:1. Yet, despite these negative views, one also finds in the first section of the Mishnah the positive injunction that "a man should salute his fellow with [the use of] the Name [of God]," the example of Boaz (Ru 2:4) then being cited. - Bera-knot 9:5.

Taken for what they are worth, these traditional views may reveal a superstitious tendency to avoid using the divine name sometime before Jerusalem's temple was destroyed in 70 C.E.

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