Frank Edward Shaw

Frank Edward Shaw is a retired professor and the originator of the theory that there was no single original form of writing of the name of God in the Greek Bible, instead of Ιαω, transliterations in square Hebrew characters, in paleo-Hebrew characters, Greek characteres ΠΙΠΙ, Θεὀς or, contrary to the more common opinion, of an original κύριος.

Life

Education

In 1985, Shaw earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University. In 1990, he earned a Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State University. As of 2002, Shaw holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cincinnati, with the dissertation The Earliest Non-mystical Jewish Use of Iαω, under the tutelage of Getzel Cohen.

Teaching

Shaw is currently a retired professor. He previously taught at the University of North Dakota, Ball State University, Xavier University in Cincinnati, St. Francis Xavier University, the University of Dayton, Earlham College, Wright State University, and Ashland University.

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Frank demonstrated that the trigramaton ιαω was widely used among Jews of the Second Temple period and early Christians in the era before the First Council of Nicaea. Shaw also establishes that the ιαω was used by the Jews up to the common era, and that there is no single original form of the Tetragrammaton in the Septuagint, focusing primarily on refuting the originality of Kurios held by Albert Pietersma, Larry J. Perkins and Martin Rösel. A. R. Meyer states:

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