01.03. Introduction

Introduction The purpose of this book is to uncover the original Hebraic meanings of the various names of God that flow out of the ancient Hebrew language of the Bible. The ancient authors of the Bible were Hebrews who lived in an Eastern Oriental culture. In order to interpret their writings appropriately, they must be understood through their culture rather than our Western Greco-Roman culture. The modern translations, dictionaries and commentaries of the Biblical texts have interpreted the Bible through a Western perspective often ignoring the culture, in which the texts were originally written. The title of this book, “His name is One,” is from Zechariah 14:9 and was chosen because of the passages unique ability to express the full character of God. A verse such as this has very little meaning in our modern Western culture, but, when understood in its original Eastern culture, it beautifully expresses the nature of God. By placing the names of God, and other Hebrew words, back into the Hebrew culture and their original context, the words and passages begin to take on a shape often hidden to the average reader of the Bible.