Author: FABER (Petrus):
Title: Dodecamenon Petri Fabri San-Ioriani Consiliarii Regii et in Tolosano Senatu Prasedis: sive De Dei nomine atque attributis, liber singularis. In quo vetustorum Patrum ac Theologorum, Latinorum, Græcorumque loci complures & illustrantur obscuri & mendosi castigantur. Editio altera ex auctoris recognitione.
Description: Lugduni [Lyon], Officinia Hug a Porta, Apud Fratres de Gabiano, 1592. Small 8vo, 163 x 110 mms., pp, [xvi], 310 [311 - 328 Index], woodcut printer's device on title-page, small woodcut initials, contemporary vellum, hand lettered in ink on spine; some light browning of text, binding a little soiled, but a good copy with the ownership rubber stamp of Emile Lafuma on rect of front free end-paper. Petrus Faber (1530 - 1615; dates also given as 1540 - 1600) published this work in 1588, and this is the second edition. It is one of the early treatises discussing and analyzing the names of God. The most frequently used names are YHWH, usually rendered as Yahweh (ca. 6,800 times); Elohim (ca. 2,600 times); Adonai (ca. 439 times); and El (ca. 238 times). Most of the other names are combinations of these names like El Shaddai, El Eloah, and Yahweh Elohim. The most commonly used names for God in the Hebrew and Protestant Bibles are Ha-Shem (meaning "the name" which is used in the modern Jewish Masoretic Text translations of the Tanach) and Jehovah (used in both Protestant and Jewish translations). Both are names for God that only date back to the Middle Ages and are not found in the ancient texts of Sacred Scripture.

Keywords: deity nomenclature prose


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