365 year old Bible : 1651 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Holy Bible

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 Here is an extremely rare original 365 year old Bible : 1651 Biblia Sacra Vulgate Holy Bible in Latin with the TETRAGRAMMATON God's Name Jehovah on the Title page at the top in Hebrew characters. This Bible contains God's Name thousands of times as "IEHOVA" !!! This is extremely unique as most Bibles of that time had replaced the Divine Name with surrogates such as "Lord". Most outstanding is the Tetragrammaton on the Title page which only a couple of Bibles have had including the 1611 First Edition King James Bible. {Please consider photos carefully for more on condition}.
[Please be aware the Watchtower Bible Museum at Bethel already has this edition on display]

  Selling here is an early seventeenth century Biblia Sacra, Latin Vulgate Bible, printed in Amsterdam by Joan Blaeu, 1651. The Old Testament translated into Latin by Junius and Tremellius, the New by Theodore Beza. Text in Latin printed in double column throughout.

   Condition: The binding is holding firmly and in good condition, rubbed and scuffed to surface and hinges, chipped to extremities and abraded to corners, small portion of lifting at foot of lower board. The backstrip dry with some thin cracks to the leather, small portion lacking to the head of spine, nicked at base. The textblock is holding firmly though initial two gatherings a little proud, endpaper joints are cracked. Titlepage with previous owners inscription in ink at head, some crossing through and rubbing/abrasion to center with manuscript ink numbering. Contents are holding firmly and are generally in good condition, a little toned and creased toward page edges, occasional light foxing, dustmarking and dampstaining at a few points. Pp 839/40 with considerable losss and only small portion remaining. 4cm closed tear to fore edge of pp725 entering into text with only minor loss of legibility.

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Joan Blaeu (1596 – 1673) was a Dutch cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu.
 
Immanuel Tremellius (1510 – 1580) was an Italian Jewish convert to Christianity. He was known as a leading Hebraist and Bible translator.
 
Franciscus Junius (1545 – 1602) was a Reformed scholar and theologian. Born in Bourges in central France, he initially studied law, but later decided to study theology in Geneva under John Calvin and Theodore Beza. He became a minister in Antwerp, but was forced to flee to Heidelberg in 1567. He wrote a major translation of the Bible into Latin with Emmanuel Tremellius, and his De Vera Theologia was an important text in Reformed scholasticism.
 
Theodore Beza (1519 – 1605) was a French Protestant Christian theologian and scholar who played an important role in the Reformation. A member of the monarchomaque movement who opposed absolute monarchy, he was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Switzerland.
 
We find other 17th-century Tremellius Biblia Sacra’s with the Tetragrammaton for sale elsewhere for thousands of dollars!
 
Main author: Immanuel Tremellius; Franciscus Junius; Théodore de Bèze;
 
Title: Biblia Sacra, sive Testamentum Vetus, ab Im. Tremellio et Fr. Iunio ex Hebræo Latinè redditum, et Testamentum Novum, à Theod. Beza è Græco in Latinum versum.
          
Published: Amstelædami : Typis Ioannis Blaeu, sumptibus Societatis., 1651.
 
Language: Latin
 
Notes & contents: 
·       Famous Biblia Sacra complete with Apocrypha
·       Illustrated title page with Tetragrammaton
·       English printing of Book of Psalms
·       Leather
·       This Bible has the name of God as IEHOVA throughout.

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JEHOVAH Soleb Inscription 14th Century B.C.E. Egypt. close to time of Moses :  

Jehovah Soleb Inscription reproduction from 14th Century B.C.E. close to time of Moses :  (resin scale cast about 7 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches). The cartouche reads; The Shashu of Jehovah's Land. This is from the Soleb Temple of Amenhotep III in Nubia.

 {See New World Translation Study Edition Appendix}.
Here is an excerpt from Watchtower 2010 5/1:
  God’s Name, Jehovah, in an Egyptian Temple
HOW early in history does the divine name, Jehovah, or Yahweh, appear in sources outside the Bible? Some scholars confidently answer: As early as the 14th century B.C.E. Why do they say that?
By about the year 1370 B.C.E., the Egyptians had conquered many lands. The Egyptian ruler of the time, Pharaoh Amenhotep (Amenophis) III, built a magnificent temple at Soleb, in Nubia, now known as Sudan. When archaeologists discovered that temple, they found an Egyptian hieroglyphic that appears to show the Hebrew Tetragrammaton—YHWH, or Jehovah. That engraving is older by 500 years than the famous Moabite Stone—previously the oldest known occurrence of God’s name. Why does the name of the God of the Bible seem to be engraved in an Egyptian temple?
“The Shasu Land of Jahu”
Pharaoh Amenhotep III dedicated the temple he built to the god Amun-Ra. The temple was about 400 feet [120 m] long and stood on the west bank of the Nile River. Hieroglyphics decorating the bases of columns in one of its halls list the names of territories that Amenhotep claimed to have subjugated. Each territory is represented by a prisoner, his hands tied behind his back and bearing a shield upon which the name of his land or people is inscribed. The lands of a number of the so-called Shasu, or Shosou, people figure among those hieroglyphics. Who were the Shasu people?
Shasu was the generic name that the Egyptians gave to the Bedouin, despised tribes who lived beyond the eastern border of Egypt. The lands of the Shasu covered southern Palestine, southern Transjordan, and Sinai. Some researchers say that the lands described as belonging to the Shasu extended as far north as Lebanon and Syria. The list of subjugated lands displayed at Soleb includes one that has variously been read “Yahwe in the Shosou land,” “The Shasu land of Jahu,” or “Land of the Shasu-yhw.” Egyptologist Jean Leclant says that the name that appears inscribed in the shield at Soleb “corresponds to the ‘tetragram’ of the god of the Bible, YHWH.”
Most scholars believe that the name Jahu, Yahu, or Yahwe in this and similar contexts must refer to a place or a district. Scholar Shmuel Ahituv says that the inscription identifies “the wandering area of the clan of the worshippers of Yāhū, the God of Israel.” If his conclusion is correct, the place name would be just one of several ancient Semitic examples that identify both a locality and its god. Another example is Assur, which identifies the land of Assyria and its supreme deity.
Regarding the inscription in the temple at Nubia, Biblical scholar and archaeologist Roland de Vaux says: “In a region with which the forefathers of Israel had so many connections, there was, as early as the middle of the second millennium BC, a geographical or ethnic name very similar, if not identical, with the name of the God of Israel.”
A Name Still Revered
Soleb is not the only place in Nubia where the name Yahwe appears in Egyptian hieroglyphics. What appear to be copies of the Soleb list are found also in temples of Ramses II at Amarah West and at Aksha. In the Amarah listing, the hieroglyphic for “Yahwe in the Shosou land” appears close to those for other Shosou territories, thought to be Seir and Laban. The Bible associates those areas with southern Palestine, Edom, and Sinai. (Genesis 36:8; Deuteronomy 1:1) They were areas frequented by people who knew and worshipped Jehovah both before and after Israel’s sojourn in Egypt.—Genesis 36:17, 18; Numbers 13:26.
Unlike the names of other gods that appear in ancient inscriptions, the name of the God of the Bible, Jehovah, is still widely used and revered. For example, in over 230 lands, more than seven million of Jehovah’s Witnesses devote their lives to helping others not only learn that name but also draw close to the God who bears the unique name Jehovah.—Psalm 83:18; James 4:8.

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