Elohim (Bible)
The metonymy Elohim (or Elohim) is a term Hebrew that appears in the Old Testament of the Bible and that usually translates into French by as a common name, and YHWH is the given in the Masoretic Text.
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Although there is no certainty about its origin, it sometimes brings the word Elohim (plural of Eloha) or to be fired himself the Arabic word Allah means "God" or "seek refuge because of fear. Even if this is indeed its origin, it can not decide on the interpretation which has been made in the Bible. For example, one can cite as possible interpretation of the word Elohim:
- "Those who come from heaven";
- "He (or those) who is the object of fear / the reverence in heaven";
- "He (or those) in which one who is afraid may find refuge in heaven."
In the Torah, Eloah / Elohim is used to represent a judge or judges of the heavens. God can be seen as a judge of heaven and in the plural, a judge of quality / excellence perfect.
The term "Elohim" is used also to refer to the Kabbalistic language used by the supposed divine character type, such as angels, seraphim, cherubim or other (up to the language Enochian ). The question of the origin of the Hebrew language of God was called molestation quaestio since the Renaissance.
The word "Elohim" (plural) is also closer to the Arabic word "Allah". Both names because both share the Semitic root el. In Arabic, divinity itself "Ilah" and the one God "al-Ilah" where the proper noun "Allah".
Issues plural
Language
The ending in-im of Elohim, which in Hebrew is generally applied to a noun plural , was subject to many interpretations. We consider, in the traditional theology concepts that may own or owner "quality".
From the perspective of linguistics, Hebrew grammar ignores the superlative (very, more than ...). It therefore makes any class of augmentative or an intensive plural verbs and adjectives whose thereto remain in the singular (as evidenced by the grammar Weingreen , in Beauchesne). This phenomenon is evidenced in such phrases as Hashirim Shir (Song of Songs), Kippurim Kippur (the Day of Atonement or Day of Atonement)
Since neither the Greek nor the Latin plural use of quality for names only, the translation of the Septuagint and the Vulgate render by the original singular plural.
Genesis , 1:1: "In the beginning God created heaven and earth":
- En principio creavit Deus could be regarded as a collective: a plural subject commanding a singular verb to express a collection or countless unspeakable.
Theological
Opinions differ however in this regard and the reasons for the plural:
- Theology, developed by some evangelicals and some Catholics , justifies the plural of Elohim by Trinity : God is three and he is one, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That's how justified such Abelard in the twelfth century, in his Theologia Summi boni .
- This theology is also used to explain the breakdown in syntactic Genesis: we create man in our image, introduces canonical exegesis even understood our peculiarity as the soul for example.
- Finally, for others too - for whom the plural of majesty does not explain the plurality of the word Elohim, but the expression of a distinct group of people - the plural of majesty is a recent invention in Europe. The invention of kings and men in general has transpired in the tradition of Western Jews steeped in Western religious culture. This tradition has been modified.
Indeed, this was the plural of majesty is crowned kings of the church (mainly Catholic) and therefore, each sovereign is called "God" because the Church had given him. Consequently, when it took a sovereign decision, he said, "we decided this ..." to say in effect: "I, the king and God, we decided this ...." Even the plural of majesty expresses a plurality effective. This tradition may have emerged after the establishment of "God" appeared around the ninth century AD (etymological dictionary).
According to rabbinical tradition, the name Elohim is translated by Master of all powers. God, when he created the world in all creatures put some force. For example, the man has the power to build, plant, port, etc.. The moon influences the tides, the sun has the power to grow crops, etc.. All these forces have been created by God so that the world remains. The have created, it is the "Master of all powers" that exists on earth.
Interpretations UFO
Some authors and new religious movements are in the plural word Elohim the sign of the plurality of the divine or at least of its many forms and conclude the existence of beings carrying with them a piece of the divine, often called the " beings of light. "
John Sendy in several books, had suggested that the first eleven chapters of Genesis were just awkwardly bring the memory of the passage of aliens at the end of the last Wrm glaciation.
Erich von Daniken develops in the 1970's the same kind of assumptions.
Elohim is the name given to aliens that Claude Vorilhon (Rael said) said he met in 1973 and 1975 and are the basis of the precepts of the Raelian Movement he created. According to him, Elohim would mean "those who came from heaven" and refers in the Bible , the aliens with whom the Hebrews would have been in contact since ancient times. According to this belief, thanks to a highly developed technology that would have created the Elohim humanity in the laboratory.
There are strong reasons to believe that he has fully incorporated the ideas of the works of Jean Sendy, whose dogmas of this new religious movement is a near perfect demarcation.
It is interesting to note the novel by Michel Houellebecq, "The possibility of" an island "(Fayard, 2005), in which the author makes numerous references to a cult Elohim saw the day in our time, and developing well as to give birth in two millennia, a new civilization in which "elected" would be cloned beings. Roman, certainly, but that is part of the extended logical enough (possible, credible) the current trans-humanist.
See also
Notes
- must, on this, to realize that theology is not the language
- baelim not even baal,
- with the exception of two examples of Genesis reported above which actually breaks syntactic
- other Protestants, as Protestants, stick to the language on this subject.
- But not all, see eg External Links
- Analysis of the word Elohim (Catholic Encyclopedia, in English)
- Elohim another reading of the Bible by Roger vintner delivers free french full revelation of the plurality of digital word Elohim.
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