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Why are the names 'Yahweh', 'Yah' or 'Jehovah' missing in the New Testament?

Exploring a historical trail of textual subversion that is rearing its Talmudic head again

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Dr. Mathew Maavak
Oct 13, 2025
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Here is a riddle the average pew-sitter never considers: if “Yahweh” was Israel’s covenant God, invoked numerous times in the Old Testament, why is His name absent entirely from the New Testament? Why do Matthew, Mark, Luke, Paul, and John avoid uttering it even once?

For that matter, why did Jesus Himself omit that name? If there was a…

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