Undertext

In asking what name the angel spoke to Mary, which was then written as we have it in Greek, and then translated to English as Jesus, in order to speak the name as it was spoken, a Hebrew undertext posited by Robert L. Lindsey suggests that Luke was the first document, copied by Mark, which read by Matthew was used in his gospel, but without knowledge of Luke, and that underpinning Luke was first an unknown, but posited biography of Jesus in Hebrew which itself was translated to Greek. Much of this is based on the distinctly Hebrew word order of these writings suggesting they were first written in Hebrew and then translated, as the Septuagint was.

This lends weight to the notion of pronouncing the Name as a Hebrew name, for though it is said the original name of the Father was lost to usage in Babylon out of respect for the unspeakable, it must be otherwise that the countless times injunction is given to hide in that name, walk and talk in that name, means that the loss of that Name was the single-most effort of the Babylonian Captivity to confound. So ever since it has been God and Lord when all along it was the Name Moses learned which none of us hardly speak at all.

Excavations at Eblaa found a civilization 4500 years old with traces of mention of that name. Some want to turn this to disprove Moses, but in so doing do not want at all to credit that the names Abraham, Ishmael, Sodom and Gomorrah also found there prove the same OT most real and most ancient. "Mi-ka-ta, Ish-ma-il, and most enigmatic of all, Ish-ra-il...Ab-ra-mu and Da-u-dum. Did they correspond to the biblical names of Micah, Ishmael, Israel, Abraham and David?" (Chaim Bermant/Michael Weitzman. Ebla: A Revelation in Archaeology. 1979). You cannot have your cake and eat it too, and you cannot have the name a strong tower if you don't speak and know it.