Most Bible students know the divine name occurs in the Hebrew texts of the Old Testament in the stand-alone forms YHWH and YH, as well as part of biblical names in the forms YHW and YH. However, the available evidence dated to the first century AD and earlier shows the Greek Old Testament translations (commonly referred to collectively as the "Septuagint" and abbreviated as LXX) available during the first century AD also used a form of the divine name in paleo-Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek.
While some Jewish Middle Platonists like Philo of Alexandria and later Christian Middle Platonists such as Justin Martyr and Clement of Alexandria rejected the Bible's teaching that God has a name which he wants people to know and to use (a name occurring nearly 7,000 times in the Hebrew text), nowhere in the New Testament is a name for God rejected. In contrast to Middle Platonist beliefs, the Bible openly reveals God's name and teaches it will be 'written' on people (Revelation 3:12) and praised by all living things.--Revelation 19:1-6.
To assist others with understanding the best available evidence for the use of God's name in first century and earlier Greek Old Testament translations, and how this supports the belief the New Testament writers also used God's name when quoting the Greek Old Testament, as well as how Middle Platonist Jews and Christians rejected God's name in defiance of biblical teaching, the following tract is now available for download on the Christian Witnesses of Jah website:
For more information related to the forms, use, and pronunciation of the biblical God's name, see Chapter 1 in Greg Stafford's Jehovah's Witnesses Defended (3rd Edition), available in print or in digital formats.
