Materials

Articles about God and His glorious Name: / יהוה

• André H. Roosma, ‘The magnificent and most lovely Name of the God Who was there, Who is there, and Who will be there’ , extensive Accede! / Hallelu-YaH study, July 2009 (formerly titled: ‘The wonderful and lovely Name of the God Who was there, Who is there, and Who will be there’; last update: 20 July 2020; over 70 pages);
  The Appendix: ‘This study of the glorious Name of God provides a powerful invalidation of the Documentary- or Sources-hypothesis’ , 13 Dec. 2014 (is included in the current edition of the above document).
• André H. Roosma, ‘Life, security and belonging in joyful adoration, from the hand of God’ , brief Hallelu-YaH working document about the Biblical Name of God in the earliest Hebrew (old Semitic) script, January 2011 (last update: 25 Feb. 2011).
• André H. Roosma, ‘What God YaHUaH says about Himself – the Message of Exodus 34: 6-7’, Hallelu-YaH brief web-article, 20 January 2012.
• André H. Roosma, ‘The glorious Name of YaHUaH in the prophecy of Tsephan-Yahu’, 4 Nov. 2012.
• André H. Roosma, article-series: The Significant Name of God :
  ‘(1) - His Presence in the temple built by Solomon’, 7 May 2020;
  ‘(2) To be proclaimed everywhere and not to be kept secret!’, 8 May 2020;
  ‘(3) Names that referred to the great Name’, 8 May 2020;
  ‘(4) - Call on God’s glorious Name יהוה - YaHUaH; where do I find that in the Bible?’, 7 May 2020;
  ‘(5) The meaning of God’s glorious Name יהוה - YaHUaH’, 11 May 2020;
  ‘(6) Salvation in calling on the Name’, 11 May 2020;
  ‘(7) The Hymns of Praise of Mariam and Channah’, 12 May 2020;
  ‘(8) Consequences of knowing and invoking the precious Name’, 12 May 2020;
  ‘(9) The Bible mentions important persons by Name’, 14 May 2020;
  ‘(10) The mysery when no one calls on God’s Glorious Name’, 20 May 2020;
  ‘(11) The unique ‘BEING’ of God – by nature we cannot comprehend it’, 26 May 2020;
  ‘(12) Still used by the Jews in the sixth century BC’, 27 May 2020;
  ‘(13) Yeshu‘ah on the relevance of names’, 30 May 2020;
  ‘(14) The myth of the missing vowels’, 7 June 2020;
  ‘(15) Also non-Israelites knew and used the Name’, 10 June 2020;
  ‘(16) Also non-Israelites knew and used the Name (2)’, 10 June 2020;
  ‘(17) What we learn from Jesus’ temptation in the desert’, 12 June 2020;
  ‘(18) Why Rabbinic Judaism refuses to mention THE NAME’, 14 June 2020;
  ‘(19) The riches of the Title אֵל שַׁדַּי - ’El Shaddai’, 17 June 2020;
  ‘(20) YaHUaH - the true God of the Bible - is involved!’, 19 June 2020;
  ‘(21) Why Christianity often ignored The Name YaHUaH’, 21 June 2020;
  ‘(22) The riches of the Title אֵל רַחוְּם - ’El Rachum’, 13 March 2021;
  ‘(23) The Speaking God of the Exodus and of the entire Bible’, 6 March 2024;
  ‘(24) His Name is exalted - call upon His Name!’ (a brief note on Is.12), 14 April 2024;
  ‘(25) - The praise-song of Mosheh (Moses)’, 13 October 2024;
  ‘(26) - The יראת יהוה - Yir’at YaHUaH’ (commonly referred to as ‘the fear of the LORD’, but what does the Bible here really refer to?), 26 October 2024;
  ‘(27) - The Use and Non-Use of Names in the Bible’, 28 October 2024;
  ‘(28) - The wonderful example of king Yehoshaphat of Yehudah’, 6 November 2024;
  ‘(29) - To be proclaimed worldwide and not to be kept hidden’, 20 January 2025;
  (more forthcoming).
• Curt Chanda ‘His Name Is Wonderful... The Significance Of God’s Name In The Old Testament For Mission’ Int’l Jl of Frontier Missions, Vol. 9, 4 Oct 1992. *
  (In his very good article Chanda demonstrates very clearly, that it was God’s intention that His glorious Name יהוה (YHWH / IAUA / YaHUaH) would become known, called upon and praised by all people, all over the world.)
• Nehemia Gordon, ‘The Ban on the Divine Name’ , on the site of Yahuwnathan (Jonathan W. Lankford), sept 2013. *
• Yahuwnathan (Jonathan W. Lankford), ‘Manuscript and Theology Study of YHWH - Name of Father, Son and Spirit’ , (2nd ed.) sept 2013. *
• John Piper, Hallowed be Thy Name: Eight Sermons on the Names of God * (both text and audio) on the Desiring God website, Sept./Oct. 1984;
  (A warmly recommended series of sermons by this faithful servant of the Most High God, with several extra’s, like a very sound & clear exegesis on the grace-based covenant of God with Israel, in the 7^th.)
• David B. Capes, The Divine Name . . . before Nicea, blog at his site, 28 July 2016. *

Study of the oldest language and script of the Bible

• André H. Roosma, ‘An introduction to my research on the West-Semitic and Paleo-Hebrew scripts - used by the Patriarchs, Moses and the kings of Israel’ , Hallelu-YaH Draft Working Document, 4 March 2024, 4 p. (living document).
• André H. Roosma, ‘The Written Language of Abraham, Moses and David – A study of the pictographic roots and basic notions in the underlying fabric of the earliest Biblical script’ , Hallelu-YaH Draft Working Document, last ed. 11 Sept. 2014, 112 p. (living document; 1^st English version: 18 April 2011; Dutch original: January 2011;
  Note: there is a misprint in Table 3, page 86; in the top row, second column from left, the Paleo-Hebrew form of the word 'Caleb' is written in reverse order).
• ‘The Original Aleph-Beth’, a brief overview, 14 Jan. 2012 (1^st Dutch version: 31 Dec. 2011).
• ‘Early development of the West-Semitic languages - Linguistic history according to science and the Bible ’, 18 Nov. 2014.
• Three-part article: ‘The Script that went Ahead – How YaHUaH prepared the way for the Gospel in Greece and Rome already at the time when Isra’el diverted from Him’,
  – Part I, 4 Aug. 2015;
  – Part II, 7 Aug. 2015;
  – Part III, 11 Aug. 2015.

Articles about various Biblical subjects

Partly based on the above research on the oldest language of the Bible, André H. Roosma has written a series of brief Hallelu-YaH web-articles. Below they are listed according the following categories:

God Himself, His Character and how He relates with us

• ‘What God YaHUaH says about Himself – the Message of Exodus 34: 6-7’, 20 January 2012.
• ‘Zakhar beShem YaHUaH – to remember/glory in the Name of YaHUaH, from Psalm 20’, 6 March 2012.
• ‘Our Father / אבינו - ’abhinu’, 10 June 2012.
• ‘His Name is Jesus / Yeshu‘ah’, 16 May 2012.
• ‘Yirme-yahu (Jeremiah) 31: 22 – A wonderful prophetic reference to Yeshu‘a and to how God created something entirely new, using Mariam’s receptive attitude’, 21 Nov. 2015.
• ‘‘Immanu-’El – God is with us – and more’, 31 Jan. 2016.
• ‘The רוּחַ הַקֹּדֶש - the Ruach ha-Qodesh – The Holy Spirit - God Himself’, 17 July 2014.
• ‘The Light of the World’, 13 May 2012.
• ‘Yeshu‘a – The Source; For who is thirsty...’, 23 Oct. 2014.
• ‘The glorious Name of YaHUaH in the prophecy of Tsephan-Yahu’, 4 Nov. 2012.
• ‘The Character of God – חסד ואמת - chesed we ’emet - grace and truth/faithfulness’, 10 July 2015.
• ‘חֲנַנְיָה - Chanan-YaH – (the) grace and mercy of YaHUaH’, 2 Feb. 2019.

The Torah

• ‘(1) A series of laws and commandments?’, 10 March 2012;
• ‘(2) Throughout the First Testament’, 13 March 2012;
• ‘(3) Absolutely delightful!’, 17 March 2012;
• ‘(4) Jesus / Yeshu‘ah and the Torah’, 20 March 2012;
• ‘(5) The Ten Words – a special beginning’, 23 March 2012;
• ‘(6) Yeshu‘ah and the Ten Words’, 29 March 2012;
• ‘(7) Chag Shabhu‘ót - The Feast of Weeks or Pentecost’, 30 March 2012;
• ‘(8) The essence of the Torah according to Proverbs 3’, 7 October 2012.

The Shema‘ – the First Testament declaration of faith

• ‘Part (1)’, 18 Febr. 2012;
• ‘Part (2)’, 21 Febr. 2012;
• ‘Part (3)’, 25 Febr. 2012;
• ‘Part (4)’, 28 Febr. 2012;
• ‘Part (5)’, 2 March 2012.
• ‘Part (6)’, 18 Febr. 2015.

Some Psalms

• ‘Psalm 113 – The first Hallél Psalm’, 7 Nov. 2012.
• ‘Psalm 117 – Another wonderful Hallel Psalm’, 4 May 2012.
• ‘Psalm 118 – A wonderful, prophetic-Messianic Hallel Psalm around Pesach’, 22 April 2012.

The Feasts

• ‘Pesach (1) God separates His own, has them escape death, and pulls them away from Egypt’, 4 April 2012.
  ‘Pesach (2) God opens the way to life’, 6 April 2012.
  ‘Pesach (3) Yashu‘ah fulfills Pesach’, 8 April 2012.
• ‘Matsot – Fast, nourishing food for a long journey on foot’, 16 Apr. 2014.
• ‘Matsot (2) – Fleeing all that alienated us from God, in order to receive His new Life’, 19 Apr. 2014.
• ‘The עמר – ghomer or ‘omer – measure of the abundance that God gives’, 22 Apr. 2014.
• ‘Zikhron Teru‘ah - Feast of Trumpets – A very special day!’, 6 Sept. 2013.
• ‘Yom Ha-Kippurim – the great Day of Atonement – Another very special day!’, 13 Sept. 2013.
• ‘Yeshu‘a – The Source; For who is thirsty...’, 23 Oct. 2014.

About life with God and each other

• ‘ - Aah!, or: Wow! – The essential art to wonder and rejoice’, 10 Sept. 2012.
• ‘What to boast in – the Message of Yirme-Yahu 9: 23-24’, 10 February 2012.
• ‘Wisdom’ , 4 May 2011; (1^st Dutch version: 9 April 2011; last ed. 19 Feb. 2014).
• ‘Tsitsit – A sign of flourishing, to remember the blessing and reigning hand of YaHUaH’, 28 April 2012.
• ‘We Want to Know – The urge to have control over everything versus child-like trust in a good God’, 13 Feb. 2015.
• ‘Cultivating Life – Does the Christian life revolve around choosing between good and evil?’, 16 Feb. 2015.
• ‘חֲנַנְיָה - Chanan-YaH – (the) grace and mercy of YaHUaH’, 2 Feb. 2019.

The Palm Tree in the Bible

• ‘(1) - Symbol of the Tree of Life’, 19 January 2012;
• ‘(2) - Full of Rich Symbolism’, 28 January 2012;
• ‘(3) - Sign of God’s presence and speaking’, 31 January 2012;
• ‘(4) - Moses and the Big Fire in the Palm-Top’, 3 February 2012;
• ‘(5) - The ‘language’ of the palm tree’, 2 May 2012;
• ‘(6) - Pole and Palisade’, 30 July 2014;
• ‘(7) - More on the word Tamar and a very young Palm Tree’, 30 July 2014.
• ‘The great golden Menorah – Sign of God’s Presence’, 14 February 2012.

Various findings and language & translation issues

• ‘The Original Aleph-Beth’, a brief overview, 14 Jan. 2012 (1^st Dutch version: 31 Dec. 2011).
• ‘A Brief Note – on the Etymology of the word ‘Note’’, 16 Jan. 2012.
• ‘A Mark on their Forehead – the Surprise of Ezekiel 9: 4-6’, 6 February 2012.
• ‘Shard with Semitic Script found in Jerusalem - probably from 11th century BC, predating king David’, 13 July 2013.
• ‘THE Masoretic Text does not exist – Some facts about the original Hebrew text of the First Testament’, 27 Dec. 2013.
• ‘Biblical Hebrew אֶחָד - ’echad revisited’ , Hallelu-YaH article, 10 Oct. 2014.
• ‘Early development of the West-Semitic languages - Linguistic history according to science and the Bible’ , 18 Nov. 2014.
• 3-Part article: ‘The Script that went Ahead – How YaHUaH prepared the way for the Gospel in Greece and Rome already at the time when Isra’el diverted from Him’
  Part I, 4 August 2015
  Part II, 7 August 2015
  Part III, 11 August 2015.

Blog’s

• Hebrew Word Study, Blog by Skip Moen.*

Video’s

• Ha'shem Revealed, 7-part video teaching on the magnificent Name of God, by MessengeroftheName, at YouTube *
• Kerry Alexander, YAHUWAH (Yahuah) bless you and keep you!, with pictures and Bibleverses by MessengeroftheName; video at YouTube; music from the CD My Jubilation! *
• Gali Atari & Milk and Honey, Hallelujah, Eurovision Song Festival 1979, winning song; and another version (lyrics in Hebrew & English). *
• Flash Mob in foodcourt, Hallelujah Chorus from Händel’s Messiah, arranged by AlphabetPhotography, Dec. 2010, at YouTube. *
• Lincoln Brewster, Halleluyah, with songtext, at YouTube; and another version and still another. *
• Susan Boyle, Halleluyah, at YouTube, with songtext below it. *
• Special version of Halleluyah, performed by the Irish priest Ray Kelly at the wedding ceremony of Chris & Leah O’Kane, 5 April 2014, at YouTube (and his lyrics, at Hellou). *