This thread will be used to discuss what ancient Israeli / Jewish sources state about the "term" (אלהים) "elohim" including its etymology, meaning, and uses in Jewish texts. Please be aware, this will be using actual source material and not sites like wikpedia and such that are not accurate in...
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, Let Us make mankind in Our image.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creators in the days of your youth.
Isaiah 54:5
For your husbands are your Makers, Whose name is Yahweh of armies.
In most Bible translations the singular form is used, but this is not correct...
Is there a distinction in the description preceding JHVH, ie the word 'g-d' there, that in your tradition, is different from use for 'any god'?
Or is it merely that
'I am the God of the Hebrews, '
In other words, the context, that lends to the singular nature of the God reference.
Shalom
Hi Brethren,
I am a retired lecturer in Metallurgy and my late father also a B.Sc. had this knowledge. He died in 1980 and in his honour, I had been writing religious articles. I studied the NT in 1982 and wrote the exposition of Matthew in 1983. It6 was written in the holy spirit, common...