"A text discovered at Qumrân (4QpapLXXLev) that contains a fragment of the book of Leviticus in Greek (4:26–28) renders the tetragrammaton as Iaṓ: "If anyone transgresses even one of the commandments of Iaṓ and does not follow it ..." (4:27). ... This investigation leads to the conclusion that the ancient pronunciation of the name of the god of Israel was "Yahô", which amounts to saying that the tetragrammaton was originally a trigrammaton. The w in "Yhwh" was not a consonant, but a mater lectionis indicating the sound "o". The letter h at the end of the tetragrammaton Yhwh should be understood as indicating a lengthening of the preceding o."
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Thomas Römer: The Invention of God, ch. 1, "The God of Israel and His Name", p. 31. Harvard University Press (2016). .
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Trigrammaton
The Trigrammaton (Hebrew: ) is a three-letter used in some editions of the . It occurs in the 4Q120 manuscript, as well as in the Sefer Yetzirah. It may be transliterated into English as YHW"In addition to the tetragrammaton Yhwh, the Masoretic vocalization of which goes back to the substitute 'Lord', there are numerous attestations of a short form Yhw, which is found particularly in theophoric proper names—that is, names constructed with an element derived from the name of the god of Israel, su
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