On Jun 3, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Jack Stewart wrote:
> ,,,the first three letters of "Yehudah" are the same as the first
> three letters of G-d's four-letter name.
YHD and YHV are not at all the same, and the name of "G..D" in Genesis, and throughout the ancient Near East was originally El (hence "elohim"). The name Judah is probably theophoric, however, from "Yahu" the god of Exodus. However there was much syncretism--Jeroboam (according to Josephus) inscribed the tetragrammaton JHVH on his two golden heifers (Hathor symbols), one of which he placed at Beth-el.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos