Jao-Jahwe und seine Engel

Wolfgang Fauth selects several variants of Yahweh, the Jewish name for God, in Greek and Coptic magical texts, among them primarily the graphical form J/Iao. He deals with their morphological characteristics and their expansion or replacement by other names, and shows how these were supplemented by the comprehensive source of Jewish-Hebrew angels' names along with Yahweh's change of status from an angel to an absolute ruler (Pantocrator). From the nominal contact with Greco-Egyptian gods and the personal fusion with Jesus Christ, there emerges a complex image of Jao-Yahweh.