The Enigmatic Name and Face of YHWH
Who has picked up the wind in the hollow of both hands?”
“Who wrapped the water in a cloak?”
“Who raised all the ends of the earth?”
“What is his name and what is the name of his son, in case you know him?", (Proverbs 30: 4)
What was then the real name of the divinity who on Mount Sinai: "gave Moses the two tables of Testimony" written by his own ‘finger’? (Exodus 31:18).
The Meaning of YHWH
YHWH is a form of the Hebrew verb hawàh - to become - and would therefore mean ‘he makes becoming’. Another biblical passage, a cryptic answer - in the 1830 edition of the Vulgate - the principal Latin version of the Bible, prepared mainly by St Jerome in the late fourth century, and (as revised in 1592) adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church - may create some perplexity about the interpretation just given: "If they tell me: "What is his name? What shall I tell them?". God said to Moses: "I am who I am. So you shall tell the sons of Israrele" (Exodus 3:13).
This occurred around the 13th century BC on Mount Horeb when Moses found himself before the ‘God of Abraham’, the same Abraham whom the same divinity had made: "come out of Ur of the Chaldeans" (Genesis 15: 5).
